svn commit: r197643 - in head/sys: kern sys

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 30 13:43:42 UTC 2009


2009/9/30 Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org>:
> Author: attilio
> Date: Wed Sep 30 13:26:31 2009
> New Revision: 197643
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197643
>
> Log:
>  When releasing a read/shared lock we need to use a write memory barrier
>  in order to avoid, on architectures which doesn't have strong ordered
>  writes, CPU instructions reordering.

Will this influence performance on those architecture that do?


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