From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] i386: remove comment about barriers
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:09:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709301709.08242.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070929132848.GA21169@wotan.suse.de>
> mb() and smp_mb() always have and always will require a full mfence or lock
> prefixed instruction on x86. And we should remove this comment.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I queued the patch.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-30 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-29 13:28 [rfc][patch] i386: remove comment about barriers Nick Piggin
2007-09-29 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-29 19:12 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-30 12:05 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-30 3:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-09-30 11:58 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-30 15:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-10-01 13:14 ` David Howells
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