Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] MCS Lock: Barrier corrections

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On Nov 7, 2013 6:55 PM, "Michel Lespinasse" <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Rather than writing arch-specific locking code, would you agree to
> introduce acquire and release memory operations ?

Yes, that's probably the right thing to do. What ops do we need? Store with release, cmpxchg and load with acquire? Anything else?

      Linus


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