Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] I/O space write barrier | From | Greg Banks <> | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:26:05 +1000 |
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On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 13:05, Jesse Barnes wrote: > I think Greg had some ideas about other > things to cover as well. Greg?
You've done most of the stuff I wanted, but it would be nice to see:
* a mention of the read-to-flush-writes technique and why mmiowb is better
* an example of how and where to use read_relaxed and a description of why its better than read
Greg. -- Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. I don't speak for SGI.
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