Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:08:54 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:55:19 -0400
> As (I think) BenH mentioned in another email, the normal way Linux > handles these interfaces is for the primary API (readX, writeX) to be > strongly ordered, strongly coherent, etc. And then there is a relaxed > version without barriers and syncs, for the smart guys who know what > they're doing
Indeed, I think that is the way to handle this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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