Re: [PATCH] make atomic_t volatile on all architectures

[David Miller]

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:03:27 +0800

> Such loops should always use something like cpu_relax() which comes
> with a barrier.

This is an excellent point.

And it needs to be weighed with the error prone'ness Andrew mentioned.
There probably is a middle ground somewhere.
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