From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] locking/mutex: Relax to atomic/release semantics
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:22:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzxoz-WW8tzYCBezU9gvHNY7yNeC-o2ReRmD7XKNw2O+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442743911-25366-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net>
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote:
> ... by using acquire semantics where appropriate As such, weakly
> ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when
> issuing atomics.
Subject line is wrong. I'm assuming it should be acquire/release
rather than atomic/release.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-20 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-20 10:11 [PATCH 0/5] locking: Adopt relaxed barrier semantics Davidlohr Bueso
2015-09-20 10:11 ` [PATCH 1/5] asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics Davidlohr Bueso
2015-09-20 10:11 ` [PATCH 2/5] locking/mutex: Relax to atomic/release semantics Davidlohr Bueso
2015-09-20 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2015-09-20 18:45 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-09-20 10:11 ` [PATCH 3/5] locking/rtmutex: Relax to acquire/release semantics Davidlohr Bueso
2015-09-20 10:11 ` [PATCH 4/5] locking/rwsem: " Davidlohr Bueso
2015-09-20 10:11 ` [PATCH 5/5] locking/mcs: Relax to atomic/release semantics Davidlohr Bueso
2015-09-20 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
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