Re: [patch 00/21] mutex subsystem, -V14

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wednesday, January 4, 2006 7:39 pm, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> SGIs mmiowb() might be useful for some of these cases but every time
> its brought up everyone ends up confused as to its real use.

It's documented in Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl.  If the 
documentation isn't clear, we should fix it, rather than avoid using the 
primitive altogether.  If drivers/net really means mmiowb() in some 
places, we should change it, and like you said maybe get rid of some of 
these primitives so that their usage is clearer.

Jesse
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