On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 12:29 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:57:47 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes atomic_add_negative should always be a barrier.
> >
> > I disagree. That would be very expensive on anything but x86, where it
> > just happens to be true for other reasons. Atomics do _not_ implement
> > barriers.
>
> When they return values, they are defined to be barriers.
> It's even on the documentation :-)
Ahhh, good to know :)
/me should read the documentation sometimes....
Ben.
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