Re: [patch] ipvs: force read of atomic_t in while loop

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Aug 08 2007 - 06:22:08 EST


From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:33:00 +0200

> Just saw this while grepping for atomic_reads in a while loops.
> Maybe we should re-add the volatile to atomic_t. Not sure.

I think whatever the choice, it should be done consistently
on every architecture.

It's just asking for trouble if your arch does it differently from
every other.
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