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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-11 02:44:30 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-11 02:44:30 -0700 |
| commit | 4a1032faac94ebbf647460ae3e06fc21146eb280 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f31b97beb0406faa1523e619289ad0ab07c9787 /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
| parent | ae4e8d63b5619d4d95f1d2bfa2b836caa6e62d06 (diff) | |
| parent | 0eddb519b9127c73d53db4bf3ec1d45b13f844d1 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 7f5809eddee6..631ad2f1b229 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ============================ By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> + Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Contents: @@ -60,6 +61,10 @@ Contents: - And then there's the Alpha. + (*) Example uses. + + - Circular buffers. + (*) References. @@ -2226,6 +2231,21 @@ The Alpha defines the Linux kernel's memory barrier model. See the subsection on "Cache Coherency" above. +============ +EXAMPLE USES +============ + +CIRCULAR BUFFERS +---------------- + +Memory barriers can be used to implement circular buffering without the need +of a lock to serialise the producer with the consumer. See: + + Documentation/circular-buffers.txt + +for details. + + ========== REFERENCES ========== |