On 02/22/2010 05:08 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
I imagine all arches need an instruction. For reads as well.
Note, gcc has a __sync_synchronize() builtin that compiles to mfence on
x86. We might use that as a baseline for both rmb and wmb, and let each
arch override it incrementally.
This it what my patch did. Note it only works well for recent gcc.
Do you know how recent?
IIRC 4.3 has broken implementation.
4.4 seems OK as far as I can tell.
Well, so that idea's down.
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