Re: [PATCH tip/tracing/markers] new probes manager

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Mon Oct 27 2008 - 19:13:47 EST


Ingo Molnar writes:

> yes, the statement that rmb() is very expensive looks dubious. It is
> absolutely cheap everywhere.

On x86, maybe. On powerpc it's as expensive as mb().

Paul.
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