Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2014 07:53:20 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 16/18] x86: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes |
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On 05/23/2014 07:46 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > I would like the relaxed accessors to be ordered with respect to each other... > > What do you think? >
I think "I would like" isn't a very good motivation. What are the semantics of these things supposed to be? It seems more than a bit odd to require them to be ordered with respect to each other and everything else (which is what a memory clobber does) and then call them "relaxed".
-hpa
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