Re: Semantics of smp_mb() [was : Re: [PATCH] Fix RCU race in access of nohz_cpu_mask ]

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:50:59PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:27:41AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:20:27 -0800, 
> > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >If the variable p references MMIO rather than normal memory, then
> > >wmb() and rmb() are needed instead of smp_wmb() and smp_rmb().
> > 
> > mmiowb(), not wmb().  IA64 has a different form of memory fence for I/O
> > space compared to normal memory.  MIPS also has a non-empty form of
> > mmiowb().
> 
> New one on me!

Didn't it make only a difference on the Altix or something like that? 
I suppose they added it only on the drivers for devices supported by SGI.

-Andi
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