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    Christoph Lameter wrote on Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:51 PM
    > > > It precise the uncleanness in ia64 that such semantics are attached to
    > > > these bit operations which may lead people to depend on those. We need to
    > > > either make these explicit or not depend on them.
    > >
    > > I know, I'm saying since it doesn't make any difference from API point of
    > > view whether it is acq, rel, or no ordering, then just make them rel as a
    > > "preferred" Operation on ia64.
    >
    > That would make the behavior of clear_bit different from other bitops and
    > references to volatile pointers. I'd like to have this as consistent as
    > possible.

    Yeah, but we just agreed that caller shouldn't be thinking clear_bit has
    memory ordering at all.

    - Ken
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