Re: [PATCH 2/5] locking/mutex: Relax to atomic/release semantics

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Sep 20 2015 - 14:23:16 EST


On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... by using acquire semantics where appropriate As such, weakly
> ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when
> issuing atomics.

Subject line is wrong. I'm assuming it should be acquire/release
rather than atomic/release.

Linus
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