Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:26:32 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] locking/mcs: Relax to atomic/release semantics | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote: > ... by using acquire semantics where appropriate As such, weakly > ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when > issuing atomics.
Again, subject is wrong.
Also, I actually think you should avoid using the word "relax", since that actually has a separate meaning for the atomics, and it is *not* using those relaxed semantics, and they wouldn't work anyway.
So you might as well just say something like
"locking: use acquire/release semantics"
or similar. Ok?
Linus
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