Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on frv | Date | Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:47:51 +0100 |
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Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> wrote:
> cpu_relax() contains a barrier, so it should do the right thing. For non-smp > architectures, I'm concerned about interacting with interrupt handlers. Some > drivers do use atomic_* operations.
I'm not sure that actually answers my question. Why not smp_rmb()?
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