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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:43:19 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r197643 - in head/sys: kern sys
Message-ID:  <9bbcef730909300643k56e40be9xc8b8287dc2971ac3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200909301326.n8UDQVB1016396@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200909301326.n8UDQVB1016396@svn.freebsd.org>

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2009/9/30 Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>:
> Author: attilio
> Date: Wed Sep 30 13:26:31 2009
> New Revision: 197643
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197643
>
> Log:
> =C2=A0When releasing a read/shared lock we need to use a write memory bar=
rier
> =C2=A0in order to avoid, on architectures which doesn't have strong order=
ed
> =C2=A0writes, CPU instructions reordering.

Will this influence performance on those architecture that do?



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