On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:57:52AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> > You have
> >
> > Compiler ordering
> > CPU v CPU memory ordering
> > CPU v I/O memory ordering
> > I/O v I/O memory ordering
>
> Yep. Maybe we could have:
>
> CPU v CPU smp_*mb or cpu_*mb
> CPU v I/O *mb
> I/O v I/O io_*mb
>
> Then again before Linus hits me on the head for hoarding vowels,
>
> http://hypermail.spyroid.com/linux-kernel/archived/2001/week41/1270.html
>
> I should suggest we make these a little less cryptic:
>
> CPU v CPU cpu_{read,write,memory}_barrier
> CPU v I/O {read,write,memory}_barrier
> I/O v I/O io_{read,write,memory}_barrier
>
> > and our current heirarchy is a little bit more squashed than that. I'd
> > agree. We actually hit a corner case of this on the IDT winchip x86 where
> > we run relaxed store ordering and have to define wmb() as a locked add of
> > zero to the top of stack - which does have a penalty that isnt needed
> > for CPU ordering.
> >
> > How much of this impacts Mips64 ?
>
> I remember some ia64 implementations have issues. Jesse, could you
> fill us in again? I think you have problems with out of order
> loads/stores to noncacheable space, right?
Both MIPS64 and our NUMA IA64 implementation have weakly ordered I/O.
The primitives outlined above should be sufficient to order I/O and
memory references on both platforms without unnecessary penalties.
Thanks for adding me to the Cc: list, sorry it took me so long to
respond.
It might also be good to summarize the ordering issues in a document
in the Documentation directory. I've got a little something started
(see the ia64 patch for 2.5) for I/O ordering, and I have another
document that covers CPU memory ordering too that I could probably
contribute.
Thanks,
Jesse
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