Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:55:11 -0500 | From | Pranith Kumar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 16/16] rxrpc: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference() |
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On 11/13/2014 03:47 PM, David Howells wrote: > Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of >> hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change. > > Actually, the use of smp_read_barrier_depends() is wrong in circular > buffering. See Documentation/circular-buffers.txt >
OK. Should I send in a patch removing these barriers then?
-- Pranith
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