Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:58:01 +0100 | | From | Nick Piggin <> | | Subject | Re: [rfc] direct IO submission and completion scalability issues |
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:53:02PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Feb 3, 2008 11:52 AM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> > +asmlinkage void smp_call_function_fast_interrupt(void)
> > +{
>
> [snip]
>
> > + while (!list_empty(&list)) {
> > + struct call_single_data *data;
> > +
> > + data = list_entry(list.next, struct call_single_data, list);
> > + list_del(&data->list);
> > +
> > + data->func(data->info);
> > + if (data->wait) {
> > + smp_mb();
> > + data->wait = 0;
>
> Why do we need smp_mb() here (maybe add a comment to keep
> Andrew/checkpatch happy)?
Yeah, definitely... it's just a really basic RFC, but I should get
into the habit of just doing it anyway.
Thanks,
Nick
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