On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 10:28 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> x86 tends to serialize PIO too much (I think at least Intel CPU's will
> actually wait for the PIO write to be acknowledged by _something_ on the
> bus, although it obviously can't wait for the device to have acted on it).
Don't bet on that 8(
In the PCI case the I/O write appears to be acked by the bridges used on
x86 when the write completes on the PCI bus and then back to the CPU.
MMIO is thankfully posted. At least thats how the timings on some
devices look.
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