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

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:22:51 -0700

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:47:05PM -0700, Paul McKenney wrote:
> Just to make sure I understand... This rmbdd() would use IPIs to
> get all the CPUs' caches synchronized, right?

No, it would expand to rmb on Alpha, and to nothing elsewhere.

r~
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