From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, edumazet@google.com,
darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/4] documentation: Update circular buffer for load-acquire/store-release
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:58:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13351.1384603125@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384560630-28719-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> - /* read index before reading contents at that index */
> - smp_mb(); /* finish reading descriptor before incrementing tail */
I'd rather you didn't remove these comments (assuming they're correct) as
they're pointing out the point of the example.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-16 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-16 0:10 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/4] Documentation changes for 3.14 Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-16 0:10 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/4] rcu: Fix typo in Documentation/RCU/trace.txt Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-16 0:10 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/4] rcu: Fix formatting blows in kernel-parameters.txt Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-16 0:10 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/4] documentation: Fix circular-buffer example Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-16 0:10 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/4] documentation: Update circular buffer for load-acquire/store-release Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-16 16:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-16 20:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-16 11:58 ` David Howells [this message]
2013-11-16 15:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
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