Crazy Compiler Optimizations

Posted by bob on May 23, 2019 8:39 PM EDT
Linux Journal; By Zack Brown
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Kernel development is always strange. Andrea Parri recently posted a patch to change the order of memory reads during multithreaded operation, such that if one read depended upon the next, the second could not actually occur before the first.

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