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Subject: Re: Is in_le32 and out_le32 atomic?
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> Then the spinlock makes sense avoiding the interruption of the 
> subsequent read write accesses.
> 
> Sorry for the noise.

Ok, yes, it does make sense in that context then.

Ben.