Re: spin_lock forgets to clobber memory and other smp fixes [was

From: Juan J. Quintela (quintela@fi.udc.es)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 12:28:46 EST


>>>>> "andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:

andrea> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> Well, now GCC does CSE across "asm" and will eliminate memory loads,

andrea> What is "CSE"?

Common Subexpresion Elimination. You can get a lot of info in "The
Dragon book".

Later, Juan.

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