On 3/8/07, Tzahi Fadida <Tzahi.ML2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 20:45, Stuart Macdonald wrote: > If you are on IA32 architecture then memory reads and writes are atomic > provided that they don't cross a cache line. And how do i make sure of that? declare the variable head volatile?
don't use volatile in the kernel. straight from horse's mouth : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/423487/focus=424677 anupam -- In the beginning was the lambda, and the lambda was with Emacs, and Emacs was the lambda. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
