On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:25:16AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

Do we really need another set of APIs?  Can you give even one example
where the pre-existing volatile semantics are causing enough of a problem
to justify adding yet more atomic_*() APIs?

Let's turn this around.  Can you give a single example where
the volatile semantics is needed in a legitimate way?

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