On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Miroslav Benes wrote: > 3. Drop immediate. It causes problems only and its advantages on x86_64 > are theoretical. You would still need to solve the interaction with atomic > replace on other architecture with immediate preserved, but that may be > easier. Or we can be aggressive and drop immediate completely. The force > transition I proposed earlier could achieve the same.
After brief off-thread discussion, I've been thinking about this a bit more and I also think that we should claim immediate "an experiment that failed", especially as the force functionality (which provides equal functionality from the userspace POV) will likely be there sonnish. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
