On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 09:17 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Also, even if you were to find an atomic sub-chunk, if you need a > "smp_rmb()", what else would guarantee that the CPU core wouldn't > re-order things to do the second read first, then lose the cacheline, > re-read it, and then do the first read? Fair enough.. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
