Hi Mike, > >This barrier only applies to the read-modify-write operations; in > >particular, it does not apply to the atomic_read() primitive. > > > >Replace the barrier with an smp_mb(). > > This is one of a couple of barrier issues that we are currently looking into. > > See: > > [PATCH for-next 6/9] IB/rdmavt: Add new completion inline > > We will take a look at this one as well. Thank you for the reference and for looking into this, Andrea