> > Sure. My point was: those operations are currently not atomic _and_ > > they provide no ordering; I think that the above commit message does > > a good work in explaining *why* we need atomicity, but can't say the > > same for the memory-ordering requirement. > > Having discussed it with Paul McKenney and thought about it some more, I think > relaxed is probably okay since there isn't a pair of variables that need > ordering. Count several troubled, and exiting!, weekends spent "processing" (my) conversations with Paul... so been there! ;-) Makes all sense to me of course, thank you for the clarification. Andrea > > David
