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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/3] ring: read tail using
	atomic load
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:17:11 +0200
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17/09/2018 10:17, Gavin Hu:
> In update_tail, read ht->tail using __atomic_load.Although the
> compiler currently seems to be doing the right thing even without
> _atomic_load, we don't want to give the compiler freedom to optimise
> what should be an atomic load, it should not be arbitarily moved
> around.
> 
> Fixes: 39368ebfc6 ("ring: introduce C11 memory model barrier option")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl <Ola.Liljedahl@arm.com>

It seems there is no consensus on this series?