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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sanitize xfs_initialize_vnode
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:20:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080724062002.GA26938@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080724061615.GR6761@disturbed>

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:16:15PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	xfs_iflags_clear(ip, XFS_INEW);
> > +	barrier();
> > +
> > +	unlock_new_inode(inode);
> > +}
> 
> Do we still need that barrier()? Or has the reason for it
> existing been lost in the mists of time? Regardless, it was
> there before so this is not a reason to stop the patch from
> going in...

Good question.  I wonder why it's there in the first place.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-24  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02 10:52 [PATCH] sanitize xfs_initialize_vnode Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-20  6:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-27 13:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-23  8:06     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21  8:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-23 19:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-24  6:16   ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-24  6:20     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-07-28 22:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-29  1:02     ` Niv Sardi

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