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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2010-05-17 16:30:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2010-05-17 16:30:58 -0700 |
| commit | 0b28330e39bbe0ffee4c56b09fc415fcec595ea3 (patch) | |
| tree | fcf504879883763557e696eff81427b1ab78f76b /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
| parent | 058276303dbc4ed089c1f7dad0871810b1f5ddf1 (diff) | |
| parent | caa20d974c86af496b419eef70010e63b7fab7ac (diff) | |
Merge branch 'ioat' into dmaengine
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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 ========== |