Re: [RFC] memory barrier cleanups

2006-12-07 Thread David Miller
From: Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:49:46 + > I believe all the below memory barriers only matter on SMP so therefore > the smp_* variant of the barrier should be used. > > I'm wondering if the barrier in net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c should be > dropped entirely.

Re: [RFC] memory barrier cleanups

2006-12-06 Thread David Miller
From: Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:49:46 + > I believe all the below memory barriers only matter on SMP so therefore > the smp_* variant of the barrier should be used. > > I'm wondering if the barrier in net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c should be > dropped entirely.

[RFC] memory barrier cleanups

2006-12-06 Thread Ralf Baechle
I believe all the below memory barriers only matter on SMP so therefore the smp_* variant of the barrier should be used. I'm wondering if the barrier in net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c should be dropped entirely. schedule_work's implementation currently implies a memory barrier and I think sane sem