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From: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	"open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] rxrpc: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference()
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:55:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546528BF.5040902@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24601.1415911646@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On 11/13/2014 03:47 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of
>> hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change.
> 
> Actually, the use of smp_read_barrier_depends() is wrong in circular
> buffering.  See Documentation/circular-buffers.txt
> 

OK. Should I send in a patch removing these barriers then?

--
Pranith


  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-13 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-13 19:24 [RFC PATCH 00/16] Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_derefrence() Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 01/16] crypto: caam - Remove unnecessary smp_read_barrier_depends() Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 20:10   ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]     ` <546527D0.9040806@gmail.com>
2014-11-14  0:58       ` Kim Phillips
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 02/16] doc: memory-barriers.txt: Document use of lockless_dereference() Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 20:11   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 03/16] drivers: dma: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference() Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 04/16] dcache: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 05/16] overlayfs: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-17 10:35   ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 06/16] assoc_array: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 07/16] hyperv: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 08/16] rcupdate: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-18 17:16   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-11-18 19:38     ` Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 09/16] percpu: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-14 13:14   ` Tejun Heo
2014-11-14 16:02     ` Pranith Kumar
2014-11-17  4:43     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 10/16] perf: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 11/16] seccomp: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 12/16] task_work: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 13/16] ksm: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-30 22:34   ` Hugh Dickins
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 14/16] slab: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 15/16] netfilter: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 19:24 ` [PATCH 16/16] rxrpc: " Pranith Kumar
2014-11-13 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH 00/16] Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_derefrence() Paul E. McKenney
2014-11-13 20:11 ` [PATCH 06/16] assoc_array: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference() David Howells
2014-11-13 20:17 ` [PATCH 16/16] rxrpc: " David Howells
2014-11-13 20:47 ` David Howells
2014-11-13 21:55   ` Pranith Kumar [this message]
2014-11-13 23:07   ` David Howells

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