Re: [PATCH v2] locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics

2015-09-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > That changelog is not really helpful if someone is going to look at it > > half a year from now who doesn't have the background of the discussion > > leading to these changes. > > Ok, how does the followi

Re: [PATCH v2] locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics

2015-09-28 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: From: Davidlohr Bueso As such, weakly ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when locking/unlocking. That changelog is not really helpful if someone is going to look at it half a ye

Re: [PATCH v2] locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics

2015-09-27 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > From: Davidlohr Bueso > > As such, weakly ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use > of barriers when locking/unlocking. That changelog is not really helpful if someone is going to look at it half a year from now who doesn't have the backgrou