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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Improve (in|out)_beXX() asm code
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    On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 13:40 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
    > There was some discussion on a Freescale list if the powerpc I/O accessors
    > should be strictly ordered w.r.t. normal memory. Currently they are not. It
    > does not appear as if any other architecture's I/O accessors are strictly
    > ordered in this manner. memory-barriers.txt explicitly states that the I/O
    > space (inb, outw, etc.) are NOT strictly ordered w.r.t. normal memory
    > accesses and it's implied the other I/O accessors (e.g., writel) are the same.
    >
    > However, it is somewhat harder to program for this model, and there are almost
    > certainly a number of drivers using coherent DMA which have subtle bugs because
    > the do not include the necessary barriers.
    >
    > But clearly and change to this would be a subject for a different patch.

    The current accessors should provide all the necessary ordering
    guarantees...

    Ben.




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