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

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:05:38PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> > I don't know if this here is affected:
> 
> Yes, I think it is. You're clearly expecting the read to actually happen
> when you call get_hpsb_generation(). It's clearly not a busy-loop, so
> cpu_relax() sounds pointless / wrong solution for this case, so I'm now
> somewhat beginning to appreciate the motivation behind this series :-)

Nope, we're calling schedule which is a rather heavy-weight
barrier.

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