From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] ring: read tail using atomic load
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:11:44 +0000
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