Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@redhat.com> writes: > This change makes it so that instead of using smp_wmb/rmb which varies > depending on the kernel configuration we can can use dma_wmb/rmb which for > most architectures should be equal to or slightly more strict than > smp_wmb/rmb. > > The advantage to this is that these barriers are available to uniprocessor > builds as well so the performance should improve under such a > configuration. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@redhat.com>
This seems OK to me, since it's really as much a cleanup as anything, but like you I do wonder if there benefit on ARM in practice. Applied, thanks. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
