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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] powerpc: optimise smp_wmb
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:16:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <376f1f8b20b4be2a5f1e57afbf245add@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080521141231.GD8897@wotan.suse.de>

> +#ifdef __SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC
> +#    define SMPWMB      lwsync
> +#else
> +#    define SMPWMB      eieio
> +#endif
> +
>  #define smp_mb()	mb()
>  #define smp_rmb()	rmb()
> -#define smp_wmb()	eieio()
> +#define smp_wmb()	__asm__ __volatile__ (__stringify(SMPWMB) : : 
> :"memory")

SMPWMB is used only here.  Why not just

#ifdef __SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC
#define smp_wmb() lwsync()
#else
#define smp_wmb() eieio()
#endif

?


Segher

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 14:10 [patch 1/2] powerpc: rmb fix Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 14:12 ` [patch 2/2] powerpc: optimise smp_wmb Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 15:26   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 15:34     ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 15:43       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 15:47         ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 16:02           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 20:51             ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-05-21 16:01         ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 20:12           ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-05-21 20:44             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 22:07               ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-05-22  0:30             ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 20:16   ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2008-05-21 15:27 ` [patch 1/2] powerpc: rmb fix Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 15:32   ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 15:43     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-23  2:14     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-23  4:40       ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-23  4:53         ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-23  5:48           ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-23  6:40             ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-26  1:38               ` Nick Piggin

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