Christoph Lameter wrote on Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:09 PM > In general yes the caller should not be thinking about clear_bit having > any memory ordering at all. However for IA64 arch specific code the bit > operations must have a certain ordering semantic and it would be best that > these are also consistent. clear_bit is not a lock operation and may > f.e. be used for locking something. OK, fine. Then please don't change smp_mb__after_clear_bit() for ia64. i.e., leave it alone as noop. - Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Mar 31 12:14:18 2006
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