On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Also, FWIW, there are some advantages of deferring the mmiowb thingy > until the point of unlock. And that is exactly what ppc64 does. But you're missing a big point: for 99.9% of all hardware, mmiowb() is a total no-op. So when you talk about "advantages", you're not talking about any *real* advantage, are you? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: 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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