Re: [PATCH][LIBFS] Move transaction file ops into libfs + cleanup(update)

[James Morris]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I updated the patch to include this important detail in a comment. 
> Shouldn't it be an smb_mb()?

Yes, this is SMP specific.  i.e. thread A is writing to ar->data and 
thread B wants to know if ar->data is non-zero to read it.


- James
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James Morris
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