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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

  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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