Anton, I see that you added an eieio in atomic operations in the 2.5 tree. Can you shed some light on what was discovered here? I thought these were not required to imply a memory barrier. Was an actual problem hit and do we need a fix put into the 2.4 code base? Thanks - Dave. ** Sent via the linuxppc64-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/