Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Synchronizing Bit operations V2 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 31 Mar 2006 15:28:17 +0200 |
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Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> writes: > MODE_BARRIER > An atomic operation that is guaranteed to occur between > previous and later memory operations.
I think it's a bad idea to create such an complicated interface. The chances that an average kernel coder will get these right are quite small. And it will be 100% untested outside IA64 I guess and thus likely be always slightly buggy as kernel code continues to change.
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