Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270911AbUJVEKx (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:10:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270948AbUJVEKf (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:10:35 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:13471 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270911AbUJVEHy (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:07:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] I/O space write barrier From: Greg Banks To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Grant Grundler , Jesse Barnes , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200410212205.51672.jbarnes@sgi.com> References: <200410211613.19601.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <20041022010150.GH3878@cup.hp.com> <200410212205.51672.jbarnes@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Australian Software Group. Message-Id: <1098419164.21421.58.camel@hole.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6-1mdk Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:26:05 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 724 Lines: 23 On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 13:05, Jesse Barnes wrote: > I think Greg had some ideas about other > things to cover as well. Greg? You've done most of the stuff I wanted, but it would be nice to see: * a mention of the read-to-flush-writes technique and why mmiowb is better * an example of how and where to use read_relaxed and a description of why its better than read Greg. -- Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. I don't speak for SGI. - 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/