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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vhost-net: switch to smp barriers
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On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:37:49 pm Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 07:21:02PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > vhost-net only uses memory barriers to control SMP effects
> > (communication with userspace potentially running on a different CPU),
> > so it should use SMP barriers and not mandatory barriers for memory
> > access ordering, as suggested by Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>
>
> Rusty, any feedback on this one?
> Thanks!

Yep. barrier() is correct on UP to guard against preemption.

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Thanks,
Rusty.


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