On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 06:23:58PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> This patch changes the definition of cpu_relax() to smp_mb() for ARMv6 cores,
> forcing the write buffer to drain while inside a polling loop on an SMP 
> system.
> If the Kernel is not compiled for SMP support, this will expand to a barrier()
> as before.

Linus asked how expensive (in terms of power rather than performance)
this was; so far that question has remained unanswered.  Can someone
please answer his question?

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