On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 09:59:21PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:48:32PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Do any of the DEC Alpha systems that run recent kernels have InfiniBand?
> > > Given my understanding of the history, I believe the answer to be "no".
> > 
> > I am not aware of any Alpha systems with InfiniBand.
> 
> Very good, then we need not worry about any Alpha-related consequences
> of removing smp_read_barrier_depends() invocations from the InfiniBand
> driver.  ;-)

But maybe make that driver depend on !CONFIG_ALPHA, so as to avoid planting
any subtle ordering bugs?

Will
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