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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2010-03-24 09:43:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-24 16:31:22 -0700 |
| commit | 90fddabf5818367c6bd1fe1b256a10e01827862f (patch) | |
| tree | e90fd8f5e340be929f2cd53020b97d083397ef0f /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
| parent | 8e0cc811e0f8029a7225372fb0951fab102c012f (diff) | |
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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>
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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 ========== |