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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	od@suse.com, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	hch@lst.de, David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/21] relay - Clean up relay_switch_subbuf() and make waking up consumers optional.
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:54:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F9A441.3030400@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224137126.16328.220.camel@charm-linux>

Hi Tom,

Tom Zanussi wrote:
> +static inline void relay_update_filesize(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t length)
> +{
> +	if (buf->dentry)
> +		buf->dentry->d_inode->i_size +=	length;
> +	else
> +		buf->early_bytes += length;
> +
> +	smp_mb();
> +}

A minor nit: you should probably add a comment for that memory barrier. 
That is, explain why it is needed. It makes a world of a difference to 
anyone trying to understand what's going on here.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-18  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-16  6:05 [RFC PATCH 1/21] relay - Clean up relay_switch_subbuf() and make waking up consumers optional Tom Zanussi
2008-10-18  8:54 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-10-19  5:00   ` Tom Zanussi

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