From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ?mb() -> smp_?mb() conversion
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:27:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30642.1111501624@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050322131316.GC21986@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> 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.
>
> Are you joking or genuinely confused?
Must be the latter.
As far as I know memory barriers are only used for I/O and SMP. I don't see
where else they should be required.
Of course, the tiny bit of documentation in the kernel sources isn't much
help; it doesn't even mention the smp_*mb() functions.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 14:27 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
2005-03-22 13:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-22 14:27 ` David Howells [this message]
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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