Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:06:37 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] arch: atomic rework | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Again, the way I'd expect a compiler writer to actually *do* this is > to just default to "ac
Oops, pressed send by mistake too early.
I was almost done:
I'd expect a compiler to just default to "acquire" semantics, but then have a few "obvious peephole" optimizations for cases that it encounters and where it is easy to replace the synchronization point with just an address dependency.
Linus
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