Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] powerpc: Use lwsync for acquire barrier if CPU supports it

From: Anton Blanchard <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:43:14 +1100

Hi Nick,

> Ah, good to see this one come back. I also tested tbench over localhost
> btw which actually did show some speedup on the G5. 
> 
> BTW. this was the last thing left:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email-masked]/msg29738.html
> 
> Don't know if you took a look at that again, but maybe it's worth
> looking at. Hmm, we do actually seem to be growing number of smp_mb*
> calls in core kernel too.

Interesting idea! I do worry we will get a late night visit from the
architecture police. From memory they want the complete larx, stcwx, bne,
isync sequence to guarantee an acquire barrier.

Anton