Re: MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue May 27 2008 - 17:59:59 EST
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > re-ordering, even though I doubt it will be visible in practice. So if you
> > use the "__" versions, you'd better have barriers even on x86!
>
> Are we also going to have __ioread*/__iowrite* ?
I doubt there is any reason to. Let's just keep them very strictly
ordered.
> Also is the sematics of __readl/__writel defined for all architectures -
> I used it ages ago in the i2o drivers for speed and it got removed
> because it didn't build on some platforms.
Agreed - I'm not sure the __ versions are really worth it. We have them,
but the semantics are subtle enough that most drivers will never care
enough to really use them.
I would suggest using them mainly for architecture-specific drivers, on
architectures where it actually matters (which is not the case on x86).
Linus
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