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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] powerpc: Use lwsync for acquire barrier if CPU
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Hi Nick,

> Ah, good to see this one come back. I also tested tbench over localhost
> btw which actually did show some speedup on the G5. 
> 
> BTW. this was the last thing left:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg29738.html
> 
> Don't know if you took a look at that again, but maybe it's worth
> looking at. Hmm, we do actually seem to be growing number of smp_mb*
> calls in core kernel too.

Interesting idea! I do worry we will get a late night visit from the
architecture police. From memory they want the complete larx, stcwx, bne,
isync sequence to guarantee an acquire barrier.

Anton