RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Question about vmx_ivt.S

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Subject:	RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Question about vmx_ivt.S
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Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:08:16 +0200
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Quoting "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Tristan,
>
> Yes the mf is necessary,
> Hardware can speculatively load vhpt entries from VTHP page.
> We had spent a lot of effort to identity this issue.

I don't fully understand your explanation.  Memory ordering issues are only
SMP issues, not uniprocessor issue.  Am I wrong ?

Tristan.

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