> Just if I may add something -- I would probably slightly prefer if > you explicitly used an sfence or other serializing instruction rather > than smp_mb(). Maybe call it wrmsr_fence() or something. Apart from > being self documenting, and less confusing (wrmsr is not part of > normal ordering), I assume you technically also need it on UP > systems? Maybe I lost track of this thread ... but isn't this code for the "send ipi" path? On a UP system do we use IPI to interrupt ourself? Even if we did, presumably we can't get inconsistencies if there is only one cpu. -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html