On Friday 31 March 2006 19:45, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > MODE_BARRIER > > > An atomic operation that is guaranteed to occur between > > > previous and later memory operations. > > I think it's a bad idea to create such an complicated interface. > > The chances that an average kernel coder will get these right are > > quite small. And it will be 100% untested outside IA64 I guess > > and thus likely be always slightly buggy as kernel code continues > > to change. > > Powerpc can do similar things AFAIK. Not sure what other arches have > finer grained control over barriers but it could cover a lot of special > cases for other processors as well. Yes, but I don't think the goal of a portable atomic operations API in Linux is it to cover everybody's special case in every possible combination. The goal is to have an abstraction that will lead to portable code. I don't think your proposal will do this. -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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