Re: [PATCH net-next v4 5/6] lib: Ensure EWMA does not store wrong intermediate values

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On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 11:52 -0800, Michael Dalton wrote:
> To ensure ewma_read() without a lock returns a valid but possibly
> out of date average, modify ewma_add() by using ACCESS_ONCE to prevent
> intermediate wrong values from being written to avg->internal.
> 
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/average.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>


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