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SubjectRe: [PATCH] I/O space write barrier
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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.
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Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.


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