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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2010-03-24 09:43:00 +0000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-24 16:31:22 -0700
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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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============================
By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+ Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Contents:
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- And then there's the Alpha.
+ (*) Example uses.
+
+ - Circular buffers.
+
(*) References.
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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
==========