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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add comment explaining task state setting in bdi_forker_thread()
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:29:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110908002947.GA9477@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110907151936.1d67c706.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> grammar can often be fixed/improved by deleting stuff ;)
> 
> --- a/mm/backing-dev.c~mm-add-comment-explaining-task-state-setting-in-bdi_forker_thread-fix
> +++ a/mm/backing-dev.c
> @@ -404,9 +404,8 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr)
>  		/*
>  		 * In the following loop we are going to check whether we have
>  		 * some work to do without any synchronization with tasks
> -		 * waking us up to do work for them. So we have to set task
> -		 * state already here so that we don't miss wakeups coming
> -		 * after we verify some condition.
> +		 * waking us up to do work for them. Set the task state here
> +		 * so that we don't miss wakeups after verifying conditions.
>  		 */
>  		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);

That's nice and readable, thanks!

Regards,
Fengguang

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-02 22:54 [PATCH 0/2 v3] Small cleanup of bdi_forker_thread() Jan Kara
2011-09-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: Cleanup clearing of BDI_pending bit in bdi_forker_thread() Jan Kara
2011-09-04  3:04   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  4:13     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-05 10:06       ` Jan Kara
2011-09-05 12:50         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add comment explaining task state setting " Jan Kara
2011-09-04  3:05   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-05 10:01     ` Jan Kara
2011-09-05 12:44       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-05 15:53         ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 22:19           ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-08  0:29             ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-09-02 23:07 ` [PATCH 0/2 v3] Small cleanup of bdi_forker_thread() Jens Axboe
2011-09-02 23:12   ` Jan Kara
2011-09-02 23:16     ` Jens Axboe

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