On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:28:11AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 05/29/2018 10:25 AM, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > (By the way, ISE and SDM don't mention other important details, e.g. > > the fact that operand is fetched to cache before split lock is > > checked. Without the fact, it's hard to explain that only split lock > > generates bus lock in chapter 8.1.4 in SDM vol3.) > > That's a bummer. You're working with the folks that own those documents > to get that fixed up, right?
Yes, I already asked them to add some missing parts in future ISE and SDM. > > > Maybe I can add "Current TEST_CTL implementation is per-core. The patches > > are supposed to work even when TEST_CTL is per-thread (or even per- > > socket) in future as well."? > > Yes, that would be a very important part of the software implementation > to mention. I'll do that in the next version. Thanks. -Fenghua
