On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:27:05AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Architectures should guarantee that any of the atomics and bitops that > return values order in both directions. So you dont need the > smp_mb__before_atomic_dec here.
I wasn't aware of this requirement before. However, if this is so, why don't we get rid of the smp_mb__* macros? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
