From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Srikanth Thokala <sriku.linux@gmail.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: memory-barriers: Fix typo in the first example
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 16:27:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141203002731.GE25340@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1x7fy9egg9.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com>
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 12:15:50AM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 05:01:36PM -0500, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:50:06 -0800
> >> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am guessing that this patch is against an old version of this file
> >> > (there have been two patches applied to this example in the last six
> >> > months). I believe that the current version is correct, in other words,
> >> > that Alexey Dobriyan and Pranith Kumar beat you to this one. ;-)
> >>
> >> I thought it looked familiar somehow...patch dropped.
> >>
> >> I guess it's comforting to know that so many people are reading that file
> >> so closely, but it's a little scary too...:)
> >
> > What scares me is that so few people appear to have been reading it
> > earlier on. ;-)
>
> Or they read it but failed to understand it. Not sure which is scarier.
>
> Those are probably the Evil Vendor Tree developers who apparently think
> "this is hard, best put volatile and barriers _everywhere_ and hope for
> the best."
"This is hard!!! Let's go do some single-threaded programming!" ;-)
Thanx, Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-03 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-18 4:39 [PATCH] Documentation: memory-barriers: Fix typo in the first example Srikanth Thokala
2014-11-27 6:49 ` Srikanth Thokala
2014-12-02 21:15 ` Jonathan Corbet
2014-12-02 21:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-12-02 22:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2014-12-02 22:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-12-03 0:15 ` Måns Rullgård
2014-12-03 0:27 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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