MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue
Jes Sorensen
jes at sgi.com
Thu Jun 5 18:40:48 EST 2008
Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Now, in hindsight, using a PIO write set & test flag approach in
> writeX/spin_unlock (ala powerpc) might have been a better approach, but iirc
> that never came up in the discussion, probably because we were focused on PCI
> posting and not uncached vs. cached ordering.
Hi Jesse,
I am going to take a stab at implementing this so we can see how much
of an impact it will have.
Cheers,
Jes
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