Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:11:01 -0700

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:03:37PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> I don't *like* making Alpha's wmb() stronger, but it is the
> only solution which doesn't touch common code.

It's not a "solution" at all. It's so heavy weight you'd be
much better off with locks. Just use the damned rmb_me_harder.

r~
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