Re: Memory Barrier Definitions

From: Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 17:57:52 EST


> You have
>
> Compiler ordering
> CPU v CPU memory ordering
> CPU v I/O memory ordering
> I/O v I/O memory ordering

Yep. Maybe we could have:

CPU v CPU smp_*mb or cpu_*mb
CPU v I/O *mb
I/O v I/O io_*mb

Then again before Linus hits me on the head for hoarding vowels,

http://hypermail.spyroid.com/linux-kernel/archived/2001/week41/1270.html

I should suggest we make these a little less cryptic:

CPU v CPU cpu_{read,write,memory}_barrier
CPU v I/O {read,write,memory}_barrier
I/O v I/O io_{read,write,memory}_barrier

> and our current heirarchy is a little bit more squashed than that. I'd
> agree. We actually hit a corner case of this on the IDT winchip x86 where
> we run relaxed store ordering and have to define wmb() as a locked add of
> zero to the top of stack - which does have a penalty that isnt needed
> for CPU ordering.
>
> How much of this impacts Mips64 ?

I remember some ia64 implementations have issues. Jesse, could you
fill us in again? I think you have problems with out of order
loads/stores to noncacheable space, right?

Anton
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