On Saturday, September 09, 2006 8:09 am, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Sad, 2006-09-09 am 17:23 +1000, ysgrifennodd Benjamin
Herrenschmidt:
> > The problem is that very few people have any clear idea of what
> > mmiowb is :) In fact, what you described is not the definition of
> > mmiowb according to Jesse
>
> Some of us talked a little about this at Linux Kongress and one
> suggestion so people did understand it was
>
> spin_lock_io();
> spin_unlock_io();
>
> so that it can be expressed not as a weird barrier op but as part of
> the locking.
That's what IRIX had. It would let us get rid of mmiowb and avoid doing
a full sync in writeX, so may be the best option.
Jesse
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