Re: [PATCH] document mmiowb and readX_relaxed a bit more in deviceiobook.tmpl

[Jesse Barnes]

On Friday, October 29, 2004 7:35 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 17:47 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > This is a small patch to deviceiobook.tmpl to describe the new mmiowb
> > routine a bit more completely.  I've also updated it to provide pointers
> > to drivers that do write flushing, use mmiowb, and use the readX_relaxed
> > routines.
>
> It's all good, but your semantics and description are very tailored to
> your specific arch problem vs. unlock.
>
> What about my suggestion of defining a broader semantic of mmiowb() as
> beeing a barrier ordering MMIOs vs. the rest of the world ? The later
> includes stores to memory _and_ spinlock/unlock.

Yeah, that's ok with me, just be sure to update the documentation when you add 
the PPC stuff.  Seems like a worthwhile optimization.

thanks,
Jesse
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