On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 06:32:02PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Btw., I realize this is just a sample, but couldn't this be written
> more optimally as:
>
> do {
> seq = READ_ONCE(latch->seq);
> smp_read_barrier_depends();
>
> idx = seq & 0x01;
> entry = data_query(latch->data[idx], ...);
>
> smp_rmb();
> } while (seq != latch->seq);
>
So in the actual code we use raw_read_seqcount() which includes the rmb.
This is true for the existing __ktime_get_fast_ns() as we as the new
latch_tee_find().
Should we look at introducing yet another seq primitive?
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