Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268683AbUJEB17 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:27:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268700AbUJEB17 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:27:59 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:48008 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268683AbUJEB14 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:27:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] I/O space write barrier From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Albert Cahalan Cc: Jesse Barnes , linux-kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <1096936344.2674.198.camel@cube> References: <1096922369.2666.177.camel@cube> <200410041420.01266.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <1096936344.2674.198.camel@cube> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1096939347.24537.2.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:22:27 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 628 Lines: 18 On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:32, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Ideally, it would be eieio, and the eieio in each > of the IO operations would be removed. Finding and > fixing all the drivers that break looks impossible > though; most driver developers will be on x86 boxes. I don't agree. IO operations shouldn't be relaxed by default. That's really asking too much of driver writers Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/