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From: "Leonidas ." <leonidas137@gmail.com>
To: Noah Watkins <noah@noahdesu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Difference between atomic operations and memory barriers
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:52:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f22d86810910261122j6c9e57e8pd4a257090f65c727@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ADB5FD7-9C97-4987-BC20-997258B25FD2@noahdesu.com>

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Noah Watkins <noah@noahdesu.com> wrote:
>> Trying to understand difference between atomic ops and memory barriers.
>>
> There is a bit of info in:
>    Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
>
> -noah
>
>


Thanks for the pointer, there are no atomic operations for pointers, right?
I guess barrier is what we need in that case.

-Leo.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 17:19 Leonidas .
     [not found] ` <7ADB5FD7-9C97-4987-BC20-997258B25FD2@noahdesu.com>
2009-10-26 18:22   ` Leonidas . [this message]
2009-10-26 18:54     ` Chris Friesen
2009-10-26 19:00       ` Leonidas .
2009-10-26 19:07         ` Noah Watkins
2009-10-26 19:34           ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-26 19:42             ` Noah Watkins
2009-10-27 11:51         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-10-28 10:00           ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-10-28 13:26             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-10-26 19:00     ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-26 19:05       ` Leonidas .
2009-10-27 10:21         ` Michael Schnell
2009-10-27 10:23           ` Leonidas .
2009-10-27 11:01             ` Michael Schnell
2009-10-27 14:57             ` Stefan Richter

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