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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, mjguzik@gmail.com, jlayton@kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netfs@lists.linux.dev, xujianhao01@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] inconsistent use of smp_mb()
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:51:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1977686.1733482274@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241206071315.2958512-1-zilin@seu.edu.cn>

Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn> wrote:

> Since the code does not need the fence, should I send a patch to 
> remove it? Commit 2df8654 introduced this fence during the transition 
> to a new writeback implementation. However, the author added this fence 
> as part of the changes and did not intend to address a specific CPU 
> reordering issue.

Sure.

Thanks,
David


      reply	other threads:[~2024-12-06 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-04  6:48 [QUESTION] inconsistent use of smp_mb() Zilin Guan
2024-12-04  8:27 ` Mateusz Guzik
2024-12-06  7:13   ` Zilin Guan
2024-12-06 10:51     ` David Howells [this message]

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