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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] rxrpc: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference()
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 23:07:27 +0000
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Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> wrote:

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

No.  There need to be stronger barriers, at least in some of the cases.
circular-buffers.txt details what is required, but not all of the cases match
the pattern there, so it needs a bit more consideration.

David