On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 09:47:30PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote: > I do wonder, though, if there is some way to make the compiler do > something better for us. Clearly, implementing real > memory_order_consume hasn't worked out until today. But maybe the > compiler could promote dependent loads to acquires if it recognizes it > lost dependencies during optimizations. Just thinking out loud, it > probably still has some weird corner case that will break. ;-)
I'd be very hesitant to let the compiler upgrade the ordering for us, specifically because we're not using C11 crud and are using a lot of inline asm. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
