Re: New resources - pls, explain :-(

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:06:45 -0700

On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 10:48:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> - writel() - strict ordering
> - __writel() - only to be used for people who REALLY know that they don't
> care about ordering.

For the record, I much prefer writel_fast over __writel.

Mostly because I already use __writel and _writel in several
levels of macro indirection between my 8 core logics and
associated glue code.

r~

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