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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:14:40 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XEN 5.5.0 and clflush
Message-ID:  <20090922141440.GX47688@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20090922135914.GA44294@gta.com>
References:  <20090922123401.GB29391@gta.com> <20090922131034.GV47688@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20090922135914.GA44294@gta.com>

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:59:14AM -0400, Larry Baird wrote:
> Kostik,
>=20
> > I am sorry for delay in answering, you may use this temporal patch until
> > the issue is resolved somehow.
> >=20
> > I think I will have to disable CLFLUSH support for intel CPUs when self=
-snoop
> > is not reported.
> Thanks for the feedback?  Have you heard about this being a problem on
> platforms other than XEN?
No, and AMD should have CPUs without self-snoop, but supporting CLFLUSH.
This is the main reason for this optimization came in, and no single compla=
in
from this problem on AMD (i.e. on native CPU, not under the hypervisor).

> I am not sure how many FreeBSD users are using
> XEN.  If this is a large base, getting a fix in before FreeBSD 8 is
> released would be nice. (-:
>=20
> Larry
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Larry Baird                        | http://www.gta.com
> Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL
> Email: lab@gta.com                 | TEL 407-380-0220, FAX 407-380-6080

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