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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful" document
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 19:26:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46479E95.6050507@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33b208z5f.fsf@maximus.localdomain>

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> writes:
>
>   
>> You don't need volatile in that case, rmb() can be used.
>>     
>
> rmb() invalidates all compiler assumptions, it can be much slower.
>   
Yes, why would you use rmb() when a read of a volatile generates optimal 
code?

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-13 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.UIDGHS72acFv9jKylmdQQwWcXPA@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.fKNBJtZJWOQthlLjc1TDfY6jCLc@ifi.uio.no>
2007-05-12 18:32   ` [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful" document Robert Hancock
2007-05-13 16:30     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-13 23:26       ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-05-13 23:53         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-14 14:10           ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-14 14:21             ` [2.6.21] circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-14 17:43               ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-05-14 17:44                 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-15 14:09                 ` Jan Kara
2007-05-15 17:52                   ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-15 18:14                     ` Jan Kara
2007-05-15 19:18                     ` Jan Kara
2007-05-09 21:05 [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful" document Jonathan Corbet
2007-05-09 21:45 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-05-09 22:31   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-09 22:47     ` Jesper Juhl
2007-05-09 23:20       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-09 22:05 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-05-09 22:19   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-09 22:35 ` Scott Preece
2007-05-10 16:14 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2007-05-10 19:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-10 22:00   ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 21:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-16  9:30 ` Thomas De Schampheleire

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