Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:20:39 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: Semantics of smp_mb() [was : Re: [PATCH] Fix RCU race in access of nohz_cpu_mask ] |
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:33:22PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > > P.S :- Thanks to everybody who reponded clarifying this subject. > > Yes! it was really helpful, thanks to all. I think it would be great > to have Paul's very clear (and short!) explanation somewhere in > Documentation/.
Glad you liked it!
I need to do an RCU documentation update soon anyway, so will include memory barriers in that update.
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