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From: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
To: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] pcnet32: Remove pointless memory barriers
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:07:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241032077.7487.16.camel@Maple> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241025057.17018.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 10:10 -0700, Don Fry wrote:
> How would this be tested on all architectures to find out?

Testing could never prove that the barriers _aren't_ needed, because
you'd never be sure that you'd hit the right conditions. 

  --  John


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-28 19:07 [PATCH net-next-2.6] pcnet32: Remove pointless memory barriers John Dykstra
2009-04-29  5:16 ` David Miller
2009-04-29 13:48   ` John Dykstra
2009-04-29 17:10     ` Don Fry
2009-04-29 19:07       ` John Dykstra [this message]
2009-04-29 22:29       ` Francois Romieu
2009-04-30  0:09 ` Don Fry
2009-04-30  0:16   ` John Dykstra
2009-04-30  0:21     ` David Miller
2009-04-30  0:19   ` David Miller

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