Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion

[Rusty Russell]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
"Paul E. McKenney" <[e-mail]> wrote:
 
> Here are two patches.  The wmbdd patch has been modified to use
> the lighter-weight SPARC instruction, as suggested by Dave Miller.
> The rmbdd patch defines an rmbdd() primitive that is defined to be
> rmb() on Alpha and a nop on other architectures.  I believe this
> rmbdd() primitive is what Richard is looking for.

Surely we don't need both?  If rmbdd exists, any code needing wmbdd
is terminally broken?

Rusty.