On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22:43, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 08:38 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > I think people already don't undersatnd the existing gazillion of
> > barriers we have with quite unclear semantics in some cases, it's not
> > time to add a new one ...
>
> What do you suggest I do, then? This makes a substantial difference to
> performance for us. Should I confine this somehow to the ipath driver
> directory and have a nest of ifdefs in an include file there?
I think doing it privately is the better solution because I don't think you
have established it has an universal semantic that works
on all X86-64 systems.
And we don't have a portable way to do WC anyways, so there is
no portable way to use it.
So just put an ifdef in.
-Andi
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