Re: [PATCH] synchronize_irq needs a barrier

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:26:54PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> I think a simple smp_mb(); here after foo = 1; is enough, which means
> basically just having an smp_mp(); inside napi_synchronize(), before
> the test_bit(). Or do I miss something ?

Yes I think you're right.  In this case we do have barriers
everywhere else so this should work.

Although if you want napi_synchronize to have the property that
when it returns all NAPI processing effects are visible then
you'd need another smp_mb() after the loop.

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