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From: Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: add __kvm_request_needs_mb
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:52:35 +0100
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2017-02-23 12:01+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 16/02/2017 17:04, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> A macro to optimize requests that do not need a memory barrier because
>> they have no dependencies.  An architecture can implement a function
>> that says which requests do not need memory barriers when handling them.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> 
> I would leave this for a separate series, otherwise looks nice (though I
> was skeptical at first ;)).

Ok, I'll first post just the renaming and base other ideas from related
thread on it.