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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow lockless traversal of notifier lists
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:12:03 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051128174203.GB4359@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051128162709.GC20775@brahms.suse.de>

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:27:09PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:47:47PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >   *
> > >   *	Returns zero on success, or %-ENOENT on failure.
> > >   */
> > > @@ -175,6 +181,7 @@
> > >  
> > 
> > There should be an smp_read_barrier_depends() here for the first
> > dereferencing of the notifier block head, I think.
> 
> Why? The one at the top of the block should be enough, shouldn' it?
> 

Don't we insert at the front of the list ? Shouldn't the read-side
on alpha see the contents of the new notifier block before it sees
the pointer to the first notifier block in the list head ?

Thanks
Dipankar

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-28 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-28 13:37 [PATCH] Allow lockless traversal of notifier lists Andi Kleen
2005-11-28 16:01 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-11-28 16:05   ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-28 16:17     ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-11-28 16:27       ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-28 17:42         ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2005-11-29  0:01           ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-29  6:11             ` Dipankar Sarma

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