Re: [PATCH 38 of 39] IB/ipath - More changes to support InfiniPathon PowerPC 970 systems

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Jul 06 2006 - 19:40:00 EST


On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 16:34 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 08:37 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > > +int ipath_unordered_wc(void)
> > > +{
> > > + return 1;
> > > +}
> >
> > How is the above providing any kind of serialisation ?
>
> It's not intended to; it tells the *caller* whether to do it.

Ah ok. What barrier do you use for that ?

Ben.

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