On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 09:16 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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? I wonder whether it might be worth removing mmiowb and having all archs that matter do like ppc64 though... It's just yet another confusing barrier that most driver writers get wrong.. Cheers, Ben. - 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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