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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/27] nfs: writeback pages wait queue
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:10:43 +0100
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On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 10:01 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>                         clear_bdi_congested(bdi, BLK_RW_SYNC);
>                         /*
>                          * On the following wake_up(), nfs_wait_congested=
()
>                          * will see the cleared bit and quit.
>                          */
>                         smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
>                 }
>                 if (waitqueue_active(&wqh[BLK_RW_SYNC]))
>                         wake_up(&wqh[BLK_RW_SYNC]);=20

If I tell you that: try_to_wake_up() implies an smp_wmb(), do you then
still need this?

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