Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add lightweight memory barriers fast_rmb() and fast_wmb()

2014-11-18 Thread Alexander Duyck
On 11/18/2014 01:57 AM, David Laight wrote: From: Alexander Duyck These patches introduce two new primitives for synchronizing cache-enabled memory writes and reads. These two new primitives are: fast_rmb() fast_wmb() Not sure I like the names. If the aim is to sync data into

RE: [PATCH 0/4] Add lightweight memory barriers fast_rmb() and fast_wmb()

2014-11-18 Thread David Laight
From: Alexander Duyck > These patches introduce two new primitives for synchronizing cache-enabled > memory writes and reads. These two new primitives are: > > fast_rmb() > fast_wmb() Not sure I like the names. If the aim is to sync data into the local cache so that hardware that is