On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> writes:
> > MODE_BARRIER
> > An atomic operation that is guaranteed to occur between
> > previous and later memory operations.
> I think it's a bad idea to create such an complicated interface.
> The chances that an average kernel coder will get these right are
> quite small. And it will be 100% untested outside IA64 I guess
> and thus likely be always slightly buggy as kernel code continues
> to change.
Powerpc can do similar things AFAIK. Not sure what other arches have
finer grained control over barriers but it could cover a lot of special
cases for other processors as well.
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