Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:52:14 +0530 | Subject | Re: Difference between atomic operations and memory barriers | From | "Leonidas ." <> |
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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.
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