linux-kernel - Re: I/O memory barriers vs SMP memory barriers

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:07:23 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	ARM Linux Mailing List 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org, paulmck@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: I/O memory barriers vs SMP memory barriers 

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:

> Hrm... I'm not sure I like the io_* name, I think it's even more
> confusing, people will never know when to use what ...

I'd've thought it more obvious, but given there are several types of I/O, some
of which might require different barriering to others, I can see your point.

However, I think mb() unadorned is also confusing.

> Maybe we should dig out again my attempt at properly defining semantics
> of IO accessors and related barriers and extend it to include CPU vs.
> DMA barriers.

That could be useful.

David
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