From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>, Jerry Jiang <wjiang@resilience.com>,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:50:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B94B94.6000600@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B91D0C.5050704@redhat.com>
Chris Snook wrote:
> This is not a problem, since indirect references will cause the CPU to
> fetch the data from memory/cache anyway.
Isn't Zan's sample code (that shows the problem) already using indirect
references?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 12:49 why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are? Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-06 4:35 ` Jerry Jiang
2007-08-06 14:12 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-07 15:51 ` Chris Friesen
2007-08-07 20:32 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-07 21:02 ` Chris Friesen
2007-08-07 21:19 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-07 21:38 ` Chris Friesen
2007-08-07 22:02 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-07 22:46 ` Chris Friesen
2007-08-07 22:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-07 22:49 ` Chris Friesen
2007-08-07 22:32 ` Zan Lynx
2007-08-08 1:31 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-08 4:50 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-08-08 6:47 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-08 8:16 ` Jerry Jiang
2007-08-08 8:27 ` Jerry Jiang
2007-08-08 20:54 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 12:37 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-09 12:52 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 18:02 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-09 18:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-08 2:27 ` Jerry Jiang
2007-08-08 5:39 ` Chris Snook
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