Re: [PATCH] irq_poll: Remove redundant barrier when using clear_bit_unlock()

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 18:23:00 EST


On 04/19/2016 09:23 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Bart Van Assche wrote:

On 04/16/2016 01:55 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
... as the call obviously already implies unlock/RC semantics,
therefore lets get rid of the superfluous smp_mb calls.

Hello Davidlohr,

Are you sure that this patch has been sent to the right person? I have
helped to review a change in this code but I'm not the maintainer of
this code.

Ah, adding Andrew and Ingo, not sure who is responsible for these bits.

Please also CC Jens Axboe and Christoph Hellwig. Jens is the original author of this code. See also "block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices" (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.kernel/aMhcMrYaXC8).

Bart.