From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
wensong@linux-vs.org, horms@verge.net.au
Subject: Re: [patch] ipvs: force read of atomic_t in while loop
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:21:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070808.032131.35507346.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070808093300.GA14530@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:33:00 +0200
> Just saw this while grepping for atomic_reads in a while loops.
> Maybe we should re-add the volatile to atomic_t. Not sure.
I think whatever the choice, it should be done consistently
on every architecture.
It's just asking for trouble if your arch does it differently from
every other.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 9:33 [patch] ipvs: force read of atomic_t in while loop Heiko Carstens
2007-08-08 9:45 ` Horms
2007-08-08 10:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-08-08 10:28 ` Heiko Carstens
2007-08-08 21:08 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-08 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-08 22:27 ` Heiko Carstens
2007-08-08 22:38 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 0:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:35 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-09 12:40 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 12:49 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-08-09 13:36 ` Andi Kleen
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