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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: ak@suse.de, dipankar@in.ibm.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add rcu_assign_pointer() to kill more memory barriers
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:40:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914184005.GC1237@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040914100856.528bd6c9@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:08:56AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Looks good, memory barriers are the second major source of confusion
> for many developers (after locking).

Glad you like it!  It passed kernbench on a 4-way x86 box, FYI!

						Thanx, Paul

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-07 22:30 [RFC][PATCH] Add rcu_assign_pointer() to kill more memory barriers Paul E. McKenney
2004-09-14 17:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-09-14 18:40   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]

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