Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 May 2007 00:29:37 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 3 |
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Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 5/11/07, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote: >> + - Pointers to data structures in coherent memory which might be >> modified >> + by I/O devices can, sometimes, legitimately be volatile. A ring >> buffer >> + used by a network adapter, where that adapter changes pointers to >> + indicate which descriptors have been processed, is an example of >> this >> + type of situation. > > is a legitimate use case for volatile is still not clear to me (I
IMO it is not. We do /not/ want to encourage volatile use in those cases, and indeed, it's not necessary even if you can rationalize the use of the English word "volatile" to describe the situation.
Drivers work quite well without volatile in such situations.
Jeff
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