From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750764AbWGFThS (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:37:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750760AbWGFThS (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:37:18 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:36744 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750765AbWGFThR (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:37:17 -0400 Message-ID: <44AD666B.1060500@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:37:15 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Friesen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile' References: <20060705114630.GA3134@elte.hu> <20060705101059.66a762bf.akpm@osdl.org> <20060705193551.GA13070@elte.hu> <20060705131824.52fa20ec.akpm@osdl.org> <20060705204727.GA16615@elte.hu> <20060705214502.GA27597@elte.hu> <20060706081639.GA24179@elte.hu> <1152187268.3084.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <44AD5357.4000100@rtr.ca> <44AD658A.5070005@nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <44AD658A.5070005@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Friesen wrote: > > The "reordered" thing really only matters on SMP machines, no? Also (very much!) for device drivers. Cheers