Alexander Duyck <[email protected]> writes:
> This change makes it so that instead of using smp_wmb/rmb which varies
> depending on the kernel configuration we can can use dma_wmb/rmb which for
> most architectures should be equal to or slightly more strict than
> smp_wmb/rmb.
>
> The advantage to this is that these barriers are available to uniprocessor
> builds as well so the performance should improve under such a
> configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>

This seems OK to me, since it's really as much a cleanup as anything,
but like you I do wonder if there benefit on ARM in practice.

Applied, thanks.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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