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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2006-03-25 16:31:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-25 09:14:38 -0800 |
| commit | ba22f13563de5773701fc318ccaaa37b1fb6d294 (patch) | |
| tree | e29ddeaca4c9f7b1b5ef08804980600d0e089f5b /arch | |
| parent | 9d95dd849ccc43c4b21504e1829b5bed68cdb1bc (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ba22f13563de5773701fc318ccaaa37b1fb6d294.tar.gz lwn-ba22f13563de5773701fc318ccaaa37b1fb6d294.zip | |
[PATCH] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_UNORDERED_IO
It was a failed experiment - all benchmarks done with it on both AMD
and Intel showed it was a loss. That was probably because the store
buffers of the CPUs for write combining traffic weren't large enough.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig index 6fc631457196..31bab721cb71 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig @@ -520,16 +520,6 @@ config PCI_MMCONFIG bool "Support mmconfig PCI config space access" depends on PCI && ACPI -config UNORDERED_IO - bool "Unordered IO mapping access" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL - help - Use unordered stores to access IO memory mappings in device drivers. - Still very experimental. When a driver works on IA64/ppc64/pa-risc it should - work with this option, but it makes the drivers behave differently - from i386. Requires that the driver writer used memory barriers - properly. - source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" source "drivers/pci/Kconfig" |