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

[Linus Torvalds]

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.

Again, subject is wrong.

Also, I actually think you should avoid using the word "relax", since
that actually has a separate meaning for the atomics, and it is *not*
using those relaxed semantics, and they wouldn't work anyway.

So you might as well just say something like

    "locking: use acquire/release semantics"

or similar. Ok?

                Linus
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