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: 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