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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Strange latency spikes/TX network stalls on Sun Fire
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:12:45 +0200
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On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 13:04 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Please don't use lazy volatile.
> 
> Unless you really want Linus flames (and ours)
> 
> ACCESS_ONCE() is much cleaner.
> 

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/ACCESS_ONCE.html