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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ?mb() -> smp_?mb() conversion
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:43:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20072.1111488229@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050321150619.2ea75257.davem@davemloft.net>

David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> If I remember correctly, the ?mb() routines _were_ the original
> SMP memory barriers.

Would it be worth renaming the mb/rmb/wmb to io_mb/io_rmb/io_wmb? After all, I
believe they should only be used to flush I/O memory accesses. This would, I
think, make the distinction between memory barriers for I/O and memory
barriers for SMP more obvious.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-22 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-21 22:59 [PATCH] ?mb() -> smp_?mb() conversion Anton Blanchard
2005-03-21 23:06 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 10:43   ` David Howells [this message]
2005-03-22 13:13     ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-22 14:27       ` David Howells
2005-03-22 16:03       ` Anton Blanchard
2005-03-22 16:34         ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-22 16:48           ` David Howells
2005-03-22 17:13             ` David S. Miller
2005-03-22 17:44               ` James Bottomley
2005-03-22 18:09                 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-22 18:00               ` David Howells
2005-03-22 21:59               ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-22 18:15         ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-22 18:24           ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-23  6:23         ` Paul Mackerras

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