On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:23 PM Luck, Tony tony.luck@intel.com wrote:
I think they do. If the result of the wrong data has already been sent out the network before you process the signal, then you will need far smarter application software than has ever been written to hunt it down and stop the spread of the bogus result.
Bah. That's a completely red herring argument.
By "asynchronous" I don't mean "hours later".
Make it be "interrupts are enabled, before serializing instruction".
Yes, we want bounded error handling latency. But that doesn't mean "synchronous"
Linus