On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 11:24:49PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > READ_ONCE is really all over the place (some code literally replaced all > memory accesses with READ/WRITE ONCE). Yeah, so? Complain to the compiler people for forcing us into that. > Would an API like WRITE_POINTER()/smp_store_pointer make sense, > and READ_POINTER for symmetry? No, the whole point of the exercise was to get away from the fact that dependent loads are special. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
