On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 08:51:29PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote: > I suppose we could quirk a non-posted transaction in the interrupt > handler to force flush pending memory updates, but that will noticeably > harm your nvme performance. Maybe if you constrain such behavior to the > spurious IRQ_NONE condition, then it might be okay? I don't know. Hm, that may not be good enough: if nvme completions can be reordered with their msi's, then I assume data may reorder with their completion. Your application will inevitably see stale and corrupted data, so it sounds like you need some kind of barrier per completion. Ouch!