Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 2015 23:41:16 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound |
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:31:17AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > No this isn't what happened. My error was trying to see if there > is a way to do it without barriers. In the end there wasn't. This > has nothing to do with using primitives.
Hmmm... yeah, you can say that, but it still was a failure to recognize and apply the common pattern and what you're suggesting is deviating for no good reason. It demands a lot of cognitive overhead for something which should be routine and makes the code a lot more fragile as a result. Things like this make barrier usages difficult to understand and verify because it takes away a lot of ready-made cognitive tools. So, let's please stick to the known pattern.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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