Re: [PATCH]: Fix MTRR handling on HT CPUs (improved)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:54:39 +0000 (GMT)


As Dave pointed out I was mixing them

> just not do it on the right CPU (you're _not_ supposed to read to see if
> you are writing the same value: MTRR's can at least in theory have
> side-effects, so it's not the same check as for the microcode update).

So why not just set it twice - surely that is harmless ? Why add complex
code ?
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