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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: fix xfs_mark_inode_dirty during umount
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 08:51:13 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110831225113.GL32358@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110830072721.GA24364@infradead.org>

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:27:21AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 05:20:13PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Now that may have been true on Irix/MIPS which had strong memory
> > ordering so only compiler barriers were necessary.
> > 
> > However, normally when we talk about ordered memory semantics in
> > Linux, we cannot assume strong ordering - if we have ordering
> > requirements, we have to guarantee ordering by explicit use of
> > memory barriers, right?
> 
> Probably.  But I'm not worried about that so much, it's just timestamps
> we're talking about as the size already has the ilock unlock as full
> barrier, and we're going to kill this code soon anyway.

Fair enough.

Consider it:

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-31 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-27  5:57 [PATCH 0/2] make sure to always update the inode size on umount Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-27  5:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: fix xfs_mark_inode_dirty during umount Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-30  6:24   ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-30  6:39     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-30  7:20       ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-30  7:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-31 22:51           ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-08-27  5:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: fix ->write_inode return values Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-30  6:25   ` Dave Chinner

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