Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:13:08 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures |
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:04:24PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > > >Could you please cite the file/function names so we can > >see whether removing the barrier makes sense? > > At a glance, several architectures' implementations of smp_call_function() > have one or more legitimate atomic_read() busy-waits that shouldn't be > using CPU-relax. Some of them do work in the loop.
Care to name one so we can discuss it?
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