On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 09:51:48PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > WRITE_ONCE(obj->val, 1); > > > smp_wmb(); > > > WRITE_ONCE(*foo, obj); > > > > I believe Peter was instead suggesting: > > > > WRITE_ONCE(obj->val, 1); > > smp_store_release(foo, obj); > > Isn't that more expensive though?
Depends on the architecture. The only architecture where it is more expensive and people actually still care about is ARM I think.
