Re: [PATCH RFC] percpu: add data dependency barrier in percpu accessors and operations

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:00:40PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Christoph.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:56:10AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Uhhh no. The percpu stuff and the associated per cpu atomics are to be
> > used for stuff that is per cpu specific and runs at the fastest speed
> > doable at that level. Introducing implicit barriers is not that good an
> > idea.
> 
> Hmmm?  Read barriers are noops on all archs except for alpha and

Oops, data dependency barriers, not read barrier.

> percpu pointer assignments aren't exactly a high frequency operation
> and I'm pretty sure we'll end up with a raw variant anyway.

-- 
tejun
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