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Re: [PATCH 0/3] sys_membarrier (x86, generic)

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From Rusty Russell <rusty@ozlabs.org>
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Subject Re: [PATCH 0/3] sys_membarrier (x86, generic)
Date Tue, 06 Oct 2015 04:10:02 +0200
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Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> writes:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Here is a repost of sys_membarrier, rebased on top of Linus commit
> c4b5fd3fb2058b650447372472ad24e2a989f9f6 without any change since the
> last v19 post other that proceeding to further testing. When merging
> with other system calls, system call number conflicts should be quite
> straightforward to handle, there is nothing special there.

Hi Mathieu,

        Great to see this go in!  One small note: it talks about
threads, but membarrier as currently implemented would cover any shared
memory.  If you plan to optimize in future, that might not be the case:
we'd want an address argument for those cases?

Cheers,
Rusty.
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Re: [PATCH 0/3] sys_membarrier (x86, generic) Rusty Russell <rusty@ozlabs.org> - 2015-10-06 04:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] sys_membarrier (x86, generic) Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2015-10-06 04:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] sys_membarrier (x86, generic) Rusty Russell <rusty@ozlabs.org> - 2015-10-09 02:50 +0200

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