Re: MTRR initialization

[Andi Kleen]

Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> To do this in a nicer way (and be less vulnerable to similar BIOS 
> funkiness) the kernel really needs full PAT support.  That should allow 
> WC over WB and WC over UC mappings to occur, at least if I'm 
> remembering the docs right...

PAT only really helps for device driver performance optimizations.
But if the basic WB MTRRs are wrong PAT cannot really salvage it. 

-Andi
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