On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:09:09AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 02:24:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I must say I'm somewhat surprised by this level of relaxation, I had > > expected to only loose SMP barriers, not the program order ones. > > > > Is there a good argument for this? > > Yes, when we say "relaxed", we really mean relaxed. ;-) > > Both the CPU and the compiler are allowed to reorder around relaxed > operations. Is this documented somewhere, because I completely missed this part. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
