MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue
    Alan Cox 
    alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
       
    Wed May 28 07:38:22 EST 2008
    
    
  
> re-ordering, even though I doubt it will be visible in practice. So if you 
> use the "__" versions, you'd better have barriers even on x86!
Are we also going to have __ioread*/__iowrite* ?
Also is the sematics of __readl/__writel defined for all architectures -
I used it ages ago in the i2o drivers for speed and it got removed
because it didn't build on some platforms.
Alan
    
    
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