XEN 5.5.0 and clflush

Tue Sep 22 13:59:15 UTC 2009

Kostik,

> I am sorry for delay in answering, you may use this temporal patch until
> the issue is resolved somehow.
> 
> 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?  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. (-:

Larry


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