On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote:
This one as a signed tag on github, in case the inline patch was
the reason you dropped this.
No, and please why do you make your tag-names be your email address?
That's just odd. It seems to be related to some broken
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Linus Torvalds
torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote:
So the whole thing looks confused. There's never any reason to
actually use the expensive sfence/rfences at all. Afaik you still just
want smp_*mb() for all cases.
But note that I haven't thought deeply about
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Linus Torvalds
torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote:
On x86, there really is never any reason to use the heavy memory
barriers unless you are talking to a real device. And last I saw,
virtio was still about virtual IO.
I reported this originally, so maybe I
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:35:26 +0200, Ohad Ben-Cohen o...@wizery.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Linus Torvalds
torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote:
On x86, there really is never any reason to use the heavy memory
barriers unless you are talking to a real device. And last I saw,
