On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:45:15AM -0700, Paul McKenney wrote:
> Please see the example above. I do believe that my algorithms are
> reliably forcing proper read ordering using IPIs, just in an different
> way.
I wasn't suggesting that the IPI wouldn't work -- it will.
But it will be _extremely_ slow.
I am suggesting that the lock-free algorithms should add the
read barriers, and that failure to do so indicates that they
are incomplete. If nothing else, it documents where the real
dependancies are.
r~
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