On Thursday 08 March 2007 10:30, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > 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 : I don't understand, LDD3 uses volatile in drivers. Now they say i can't. What is the alternative? > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/423487/focus=424677 > > anupam -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
