Re: [PATCH] I/O space write barrier

[Jesse Barnes]

On Monday, October 04, 2004 5:32 pm, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Ideally, it would be eieio, and the eieio in each
> of the IO operations would be removed. Finding and
> fixing all the drivers that break looks impossible
> though; most driver developers will be on x86 boxes.

Well, I won't pretend to understand how the PPC ordering rules work, so I'll 
defer to benh on that one.

> In that case: wmmiob
>
> (or something longer, like mmio_write_fence maybe)
>
> As a name, "wmb" sucks almost as much as "cli" and "sti" do.
> It dates back to the Alpha port, where it's an opcode.

The other option I briefly considered was wwjd(), but I don't think He has an 
official position on posted write ordering.

Jesse
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