Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765016AbXHQAEf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:04:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757685AbXHQAE1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:04:27 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:3286 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757149AbXHQAE0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:04:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:04:17 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Chris Snook Cc: Andi Kleen , sebastian@breakpoint.cc, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] i386: use asm() like the other atomic operations already do. Message-ID: <20070817000417.GD11594@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <46C3319F.4050809@redhat.com> <20070815234434.GC28775@gondor.apana.org.au> <46C4A445.6070802@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46C4A445.6070802@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 24 On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:23:49PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > > >You keep saying this yet everytime I ask for an example I > >get nothing. > > Just look for all the code (and there's an immense amount) that has a > barrier() between two atomic_* operations, or in a loop with such > operations. With these patches merged, we can proceed to *remove* those > barriers. When I say example I don't mean some hypothetical case, please give actual function/file names. Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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/