David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I remember correctly, the ?mb() routines _were_ the original > SMP memory barriers.
Would it be worth renaming the mb/rmb/wmb to io_mb/io_rmb/io_wmb? After all, I believe they should only be used to flush I/O memory accesses. This would, I think, make the distinction between memory barriers for I/O and memory barriers for SMP more obvious. David
