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SubjectRe: Difference between atomic operations and memory barriers
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Noah Watkins <noah@noahdesu.com> wrote:
>> Trying to understand difference between atomic ops and memory barriers.
>>
> There is a bit of info in:
>    Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
>
> -noah
>
>


Thanks for the pointer, there are no atomic operations for pointers, right?
I guess barrier is what we need in that case.

-Leo.
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