Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Opinion on ordering of writel vs. stores to RAM | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:35:19 +0100 |
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Ar Sul, 2006-09-10 am 10:18 -0700, ysgrifennodd Jesse Barnes: > We already have readX_relaxed, but that's for PIO vs. DMA ordering, not > PIO vs. PIO. To distinguish from that case maybe writeX_weak or > writeX_nobarrier would make sense?
We have existing users of the format "__foo" for unlocked or un-ordered foo. __readl seems fairly natural and its shorter to write than _nobarriermaybesyncsafterlockbutnotwithmmio()
Alan
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