Re: MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue

[Alan Cox]

> Anyway, Intel certainly seems to document that WC memory is serialized by 
> any access to UC memory.

I don't believe that is actually true on Pentium Pro at least.

>   So what started out as a "we can do accesses to the frame buffer more 
>   efficiently without anybody ever even having to know or care" has 
>   turned into a whole nightmare of people using it for other things, and 
>   then you very much _do_ have to care! ]

Notably graphics where 3Dfx lined the registers up specifically to make
this work. We were also using it with IÂO where it gave a small
performance gain.

Alan
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