Re: [patch 1/2] i386: use asm() like the other atomic operations already do.

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:23:49PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
>
> >You keep saying this yet everytime I ask for an example I
> >get nothing.
> 
> Just look for all the code (and there's an immense amount) that has a 
> barrier() between two atomic_* operations, or in a loop with such 
> operations.  With these patches merged, we can proceed to *remove* those 
> barriers.

When I say example I don't mean some hypothetical case, please
give actual function/file names.

Thanks,
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