[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Memory model, using ISO C++11 atomic ops

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 04:11:21PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-07-22 at 11:34 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Further, Paul McKenney and others are assembling a memory model description.
> > Do we want to consider loosening up the kernel memory model?
> 
> It's not clear that 'loosening up' is what we're after.

Linus (who should also very much be present for this) always argues
against relaxing ordering.