Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Aug 16 2007 - 22:14:42 EST


On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:04:24PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
>
> >Could you please cite the file/function names so we can
> >see whether removing the barrier makes sense?
>
> At a glance, several architectures' implementations of smp_call_function()
> have one or more legitimate atomic_read() busy-waits that shouldn't be
> using CPU-relax. Some of them do work in the loop.

Care to name one so we can discuss it?

Thanks,
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