Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:26:22 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (1/4) 2.5.59 fast reader/writer lock for gettimeofday |
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> These need to be mb(), not wmb(), if you want the bits in between > to actually happen in between, as with your xtime example. At > present there's nothing stoping xtime from being *read* before > your read from pre_sequence happens.
But with frlocks we synchronise writers with a spinlock, so shouldnt it provide that synchronisation?
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