Re: [Patch 0/10]: Cleanup online reservations for 2.6.9-rc2-mm4.

From: Manfred Spraul (manfred_at_colorfullife.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:00:36 +0200
To: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>

    sct wrote:

    >Locking
    >is minimised: the impact on the hot path consists of nothing more than
    >an smp_rmb() before we test sb->s_groups_count. That's a noop on x86,
    >
    No, wrong way around:
    wmb() is empty. rmb() is either lfence or a locked dummy instruction. 

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    Manfred
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