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. 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 netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html