Subject: Re: [patch] ipvs: force read of atomic_t in while loop

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:21:31 -0700 (PDT)

From: Heiko Carstens <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:33:00 +0200

> Just saw this while grepping for atomic_reads in a while loops.
> Maybe we should re-add the volatile to atomic_t. Not sure.

I think whatever the choice, it should be done consistently
on every architecture.

It's just asking for trouble if your arch does it differently from
every other.