Re: [PATCH v2 16/18] x86: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes

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On 05/23/2014 07:46 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> 
> I would like the relaxed accessors to be ordered with respect to each other...
> 
> What do you think?
> 

I think "I would like" isn't a very good motivation.  What are the
semantics of these things supposed to be?  It seems more than a bit odd
to require them to be ordered with respect to each other and everything
else (which is what a memory clobber does) and then call them "relaxed".

	-hpa


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