Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add rcu_assign_pointer() to kill more memory barriers

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:08:56AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Looks good, memory barriers are the second major source of confusion
> for many developers (after locking).

Glad you like it!  It passed kernbench on a 4-way x86 box, FYI!

						Thanx, Paul
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