Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2017 22:57:00 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 21/21] drivers/vhost: Remove now-redundant read_barrier_depends() |
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 11:24:49PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > READ_ONCE is really all over the place (some code literally replaced all > memory accesses with READ/WRITE ONCE).
Yeah, so? Complain to the compiler people for forcing us into that.
> Would an API like WRITE_POINTER()/smp_store_pointer make sense, > and READ_POINTER for symmetry?
No, the whole point of the exercise was to get away from the fact that dependent loads are special.
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