On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:53:02PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
quoted text
> Hi Nick,
> 
> On Feb 3, 2008 11:52 AM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> > +asmlinkage void smp_call_function_fast_interrupt(void)
> > +{
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > +       while (!list_empty(&list)) {
> > +               struct call_single_data *data;
> > +
> > +               data = list_entry(list.next, struct call_single_data, list);
> > +               list_del(&data->list);
> > +
> > +               data->func(data->info);
> > +               if (data->wait) {
> > +                       smp_mb();
> > +                       data->wait = 0;
> 
> Why do we need smp_mb() here (maybe add a comment to keep
> Andrew/checkpatch happy)?

Yeah, definitely... it's just a really basic RFC, but I should get
into the habit of just doing it anyway.

Thanks,
Nick
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