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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Linux questions
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:29:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071203112958.GB4930@implementation.labri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4753F583.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>

Jan Beulich, le Mon 03 Dec 2007 11:24:35 +0000, a écrit :
> 2) What is the reason for the inconsistent use of rmb() vs. barrier() in
> time-xen.c? It would seem to me that rmb() should be sufficient in all
> cases.

rmb() is more powerful than barrier(), not the converse.

Samuel

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-03 11:24 Linux questions Jan Beulich
2007-12-03 11:29 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2007-12-03 11:40   ` Jan Beulich
2007-12-03 18:32     ` Keir Fraser
2007-12-04 10:23       ` Jan Beulich
2007-12-04 10:55         ` Keir Fraser
2007-12-04 11:13           ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-04 11:27             ` Keir Fraser
2007-12-04 11:44               ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-04 11:56                 ` Keir Fraser
2007-12-04 12:23                   ` Andi Kleen

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