[alsa-devel] [PATCH] alsa-lib:Make snd_atomic_write_* truly atomic

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Thu, 12 May 2016, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Yeah, that's why I stated the primary question.  The atomic operation
> there is mostly cosmetic, not really helpful.  In the whole other
> operation, we don't guarantee the thread safety at all.  So,
> implementing the atomic op only in a very small part of the whole code
> appears like a superfluous optimization to me.

The question is, if we decide to remove this atomic stuff, how do we 
verify that it actually causes no problems, on all architectures, etc?

/Ricard
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