Re: I/O memory barriers vs SMP memory barriers

[David Howells]

Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does everybody agree on these semantics, though?  At least David seems
> to think that mb/rmb/wmb aren't required to order normal memory accesses
> against each other..

Ummm...  I've just realised that your statement here is ambiguous.  When you
say "aren't required to", do you mean "aren't necessary to" or do you mean
"don't have to"?  Isn't English a fun language?

Anyway, what I meant is that mb() and co. as they stand _must_ do everything
smp_mb() and co do respectively, _in_ _addition_ to other side effects.

	mb() implies smp_mb()
	rmb() implies smp_rmb()
	wmb() implies smp_wmb()
	...

David
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