Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:44:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][LIBFS] Move transaction file ops into libfs + cleanup (update) |
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I updated the patch to include this important detail in a comment. > Shouldn't it be an smb_mb()?
Yes, this is SMP specific. i.e. thread A is writing to ar->data and thread B wants to know if ar->data is non-zero to read it.
- James -- James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
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