On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:57 AM Nadav Amit <na...@vmware.com> wrote: > > I’ll have a look at some specific function assembly, but overall, the “+m” > approach might prevent even more code optimizations than the “volatile” one.
Ok, that being the case, let's forget that patch. I still wonder about the added volatiles to the xadd/cmpxchg cases, which already had the "memory" clobber which should make the volatile immaterial.. Linus