On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:23 PM Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think they do. If the result of the wrong data has already > been sent out the network before you process the signal, then you > will need far smarter application software than has ever been written > to hunt it down and stop the spread of the bogus result. Bah. That's a completely red herring argument. By "asynchronous" I don't mean "hours later". Make it be "interrupts are enabled, before serializing instruction". Yes, we want bounded error handling latency. But that doesn't mean "synchronous" Linus