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 --- arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 10 ---------- include/asm-x86_64/io.h | 18 ------------------ 2 files changed, 28 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/x86_64/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/Kconfig +++ linux/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" Index: linux/include/asm-x86_64/io.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/asm-x86_64/io.h +++ linux/include/asm-x86_64/io.h @@ -200,23 +200,6 @@ static inline __u64 __readq(const volati #define mmiowb() -#ifdef CONFIG_UNORDERED_IO -static inline void __writel(__u32 val, volatile void __iomem *addr) -{ - volatile __u32 __iomem *target = addr; - asm volatile("movnti %1,%0" - : "=m" (*target) - : "r" (val) : "memory"); -} - -static inline void __writeq(__u64 val, volatile void __iomem *addr) -{ - volatile __u64 __iomem *target = addr; - asm volatile("movnti %1,%0" - : "=m" (*target) - : "r" (val) : "memory"); -} -#else static inline void __writel(__u32 b, volatile void __iomem *addr) { *(__force volatile __u32 *)addr = b; @@ -225,7 +208,6 @@ static inline void __writeq(__u64 b, vol { *(__force volatile __u64 *)addr = b; } -#endif static inline void __writeb(__u8 b, volatile void __iomem *addr) { *(__force volatile __u8 *)addr = b;