linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:17:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
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	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all
 architectures

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> > > We don't need to reload sk->sk_prot->memory_allocated here.
> > 
> > Are you sure?  How do you know some other CPU hasn't changed the value
> > in between?
> 
> The cpu knows because the cacheline was not invalidated.

Crap my statement above is wrong..... We do not care that the 
value was changed otherwise we would have put a barrier in there.

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