[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: Kirkwood: Add memory barriers to kwgbe_send/recv
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jul 1 19:14:19 CEST 2009
Stefan Roese wrote:
> I know that we advertised the usage of the io accessor functions for quite
> some time now. But I'm not so sure here anymore. One disadvantage of this
> usage could be speed penalty by the usage of too many unnecessary barriers
> (included via the accessor functions on some platforms).
Hot paths (or tiny bootstraps) can be optimized if needed, but why
invite screwups for the majority of code?
-Scott
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