Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM

Ar Sul, 2006-09-10 am 10:18 -0700, ysgrifennodd Jesse Barnes:
> We already have readX_relaxed, but that's for PIO vs. DMA ordering, not 
> PIO vs. PIO.  To distinguish from that case maybe writeX_weak or 
> writeX_nobarrier would make sense?

We have existing users of the format "__foo" for unlocked or un-ordered
foo. __readl seems fairly natural and its shorter to write than
_nobarriermaybesyncsafterlockbutnotwithmmio()

Alan

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