Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269495AbUINWDz (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:03:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266170AbUINWA0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:00:26 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:16311 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269584AbUINRJc (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:08:56 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: paulmck@us.ibm.com Cc: ak@suse.de, dipankar@in.ibm.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add rcu_assign_pointer() to kill more memory barriers Message-Id: <20040914100856.528bd6c9@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <20040907223037.GA13346@us.ibm.com> References: <20040907223037.GA13346@us.ibm.com> Organization: Open Source Development Lab X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-Face: &@E+xe?c%:&e4D{>f1O<&U>2qwRREG5!}7R4;D<"NO^UI2mJ[eEOA2*3>(`Th.yP,VDPo9$ /`~cw![cmj~~jWe?AHY7D1S+\}5brN0k*NE?pPh_'_d>6;XGG[\KDRViCfumZT3@[ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 350 Lines: 7 Looks good, memory barriers are the second major source of confusion for many developers (after locking). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/