Re: Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

[Benjamin Poirier]

On 11-09-12 09:33, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:15:20AM -0400, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> > Hello David, Paul,
> > 
[snip]
> 
> This example would be correct for a looping case, but is more ornate than
> required for illustrating the effects of memory barriers.  So we took the
> simpler case without the loop.

Thanks for the clarification. I was under the false impression that all
of the code examples in this section represented the same code segment
that was modified from one example to the next. In any case, these
examples do demonstrate the use of memory barriers clearly.

-Ben
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