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On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 16:11 +0100, Ivan Vecera wrote:

> Erik, why doesn't help the write barrier between the assignments. It 
> should guarantee their orders... or not?
> 

Its not enough, I wont explain here why as RCU is quite well documented
in Documentation/RCU