This commit replaces full barriers by targeted use of load-acquire and
store-release.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Restore comments as suggested by David Howells. ]
The code sample in Documentation/circular-buffers.txt appears to have a
few ordering bugs. This patch therefore applies the needed fixes.
Reported-by: Lech Fomicki <lfomicki@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Document the circular buffering capabilities available in Linux.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul E. McKenney
David Howells