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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Julia Suvorova <jusual@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	Aarushi Mehta <mehta.aaru20@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] liburing/barrier.h: Add prefix io_uring to barriers
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:55:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <592fe38c-1fa2-9ba5-cd6c-da69c95edb33@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190812123933.24814-1-jusual@redhat.com>

On 8/12/19 5:39 AM, Julia Suvorova wrote:
> -#define mb()	asm volatile("mfence" ::: "memory")
> -#define rmb()	asm volatile("lfence" ::: "memory")
> -#define wmb()	asm volatile("sfence" ::: "memory")
> -#define smp_rmb() barrier()
> -#define smp_wmb() barrier()
> +#define io_uring_mb()		asm volatile("mfence" ::: "memory")
> +#define io_uring_rmb()		asm volatile("lfence" ::: "memory")
> +#define io_uring_wmb()		asm volatile("sfence" ::: "memory")
> +#define io_uring_smp_rmb()	io_uring_barrier()
> +#define io_uring_smp_wmb()	io_uring_barrier()

Do users of liburing need these macros? If not, have you considered to 
move these macros to a new header file that is only used inside liburing 
and such that these macros are no longer visible to liburing users?

Thanks,

Bart.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-12 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-12 12:39 [PATCH] liburing/barrier.h: Add prefix io_uring to barriers Julia Suvorova
2019-08-12 13:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-08-12 13:55 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2019-08-12 16:03   ` Jens Axboe
2019-08-14 15:23     ` Julia Suvorova
2019-08-16  0:03       ` Hrvoje Zeba
2019-08-19 14:46 ` Jens Axboe
2019-08-20 12:46   ` Julia Suvorova

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