Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:14:19 +1000 | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion |
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:56:26 -0700 (PDT) "Paul E. McKenney" <mckenney@eng4.beaverton.ibm.com> wrote:
> Here are two patches. The wmbdd patch has been modified to use > the lighter-weight SPARC instruction, as suggested by Dave Miller. > The rmbdd patch defines an rmbdd() primitive that is defined to be > rmb() on Alpha and a nop on other architectures. I believe this > rmbdd() primitive is what Richard is looking for.
Surely we don't need both? If rmbdd exists, any code needing wmbdd is terminally broken?
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