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Paul E. McKenney
6c43c091bd documentation: Update circular buffer for load-acquire/store-release 
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. ]
 2013-12-03 10:08:57 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
9873552fc1 documentation: Fix circular-buffer example. 
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>
 2013-12-03 10:08:56 -08:00
David Howells
90fddabf58 Document Linux's circular buffering capabilities 
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>
 2010-03-24 16:31:22 -07:00