Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 8 authors, 2014-11-18

RE: [PATCH 0/4] Add lightweight memory barriers fast_rmb() and fast_wmb()

From: David Laight <hidden>
Date: 2014-11-18 09:58:00
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From: Alexander Duyck
These patches introduce two new primitives for synchronizing cache-enabled
memory writes and reads.  These two new primitives are:

	fast_rmb()
	fast_wmb()
Not sure I like the names.
If the aim is to sync data into the local cache so that hardware
that is doing cache-snooping accesses sees the data then maybe
	local_rmb() and local_wmb()

IIRC read_barrier_depends() is a nop on everything except alpha.
Maybe add the default if it isn't defined by the MD file?

	David
 
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