On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 06:16:25PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 09:59:21PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:48:32PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > Do any of the DEC Alpha systems that run recent kernels have InfiniBand? > > > > Given my understanding of the history, I believe the answer to be "no". > > > > > > I am not aware of any Alpha systems with InfiniBand. > > > > Very good, then we need not worry about any Alpha-related consequences > > of removing smp_read_barrier_depends() invocations from the InfiniBand > > driver. ;-) > > But maybe make that driver depend on !CONFIG_ALPHA, so as to avoid planting > any subtle ordering bugs? Good point, that does sound like a very sensible precaution! Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
