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Subject: Re: alpha performance on -current
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Bernd Walter writes:
 > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:43:27AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
 > > 
 > > On 05-Sep-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > > I'm using the appended diff, which I think is what you're suggesting:
 > > 
 > > I think what he is really suggesting is to remove the mb's from all the
 > > atomic_foo ops that don't have _acq or _rel in them.  The _acq and _rel
 > > versions should be wrappers that add mb's.
 > 
 > Exactly.

OK, I'm bound to make a hash of things.  Can you show me what you
mean?

Thanks,

Drew

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