Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@...>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, <linux-arch@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linuxppc-dev@...>, <scottwood@...>, <torvalds@...>, David Miller <davem@...>, <alan@...>
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:48 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
Yes, sync's can hurt a lot. This is why I initially tried to get more
relaxed semantics.
We could implement something like __ variants and do something that
would still have eieio's but not sync's for example (ie. MMIOs are still
ordered vs. each other but not vs. coherent memory).
Ben.
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