Re: Semantics of smp_mb() [was : Re: [PATCH] Fix RCU race in access of nohz_cpu_mask ]

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:33:22PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> 
> > P.S :- Thanks to everybody who reponded clarifying this subject.
> 
> Yes! it was really helpful, thanks to all. I think it would be great
> to have Paul's very clear (and short!) explanation somewhere in
> Documentation/.

Glad you liked it!

I need to do an RCU documentation update soon anyway, so will include
memory barriers in that update.

							Thanx, Paul
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