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

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