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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.
+
+
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REFERENCES
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