Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] arch: atomic rework

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Again, the way I'd expect a compiler writer to actually *do* this is
> to just default to "ac

Oops, pressed send by mistake too early.

I was almost done:

I'd expect a compiler to just default to "acquire" semantics, but then
have a few "obvious peephole" optimizations for cases that it
encounters and where it is easy to replace the synchronization point
with just an address dependency.

             Linus
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