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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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Subject: Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:11:01 MST."
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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:39:37 +1000
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In message <20011009091101.A27319@twiddle.net> you write:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:03:37PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I don't *like* making Alpha's wmb() stronger, but it is the
> > only solution which doesn't touch common code.
> 
> It's not a "solution" at all.  It's so heavy weight you'd be
> much better off with locks.  Just use the damned rmb_me_harder.

Wow!  I'm glad you're volunteering to audit all the kernel code to fix
this Alpha-specific bug by inserting rmb_me_harder() in all the
critical locations!

Don't miss any!

I look forward to seeing your patch,
Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK
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