On Fri, Sep 14 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
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> 
> Should add some comments for the tag barriers (they won't be so important
> if we can switch over to the explicit _lock bitops, but for now we should
> make it clear).

Thanks!

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> Jens' original patch said a barrier after the test_and_clear_bit was also
> required. I can't see why (and it would prevent the use of the _lock bitop).

Yeah, I don't think it's needed either. The important bit was ordering
the ->tag_index[tag] = NULL setting before clearing the bit, and as long
as those two operations are ordered, we are good to go. So the last
memory barrier was not needed.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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