Re: [PATCH 6/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on frv

David Howells
2007-08-11T08:48:55Z

Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> wrote:

> cpu_relax() contains a barrier, so it should do the right thing. For non-smp
> architectures, I'm concerned about interacting with interrupt handlers. Some
> drivers do use atomic_* operations.

I'm not sure that actually answers my question. Why not smp_rmb()?

David