| Date | Tue, 13 May 2014 20:22:10 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 19/19] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barries and waitqueue lookups in unlock_page fastpath |
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On 05/13, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Ah, yes, so I'll defer to Oleg and Linus to explain that one. As per the > name: smp_mb__before_spinlock() should of course imply a full barrier.
Oh yes, I agree, the name is confusing. At least the comment tries to explain what it does.
Oleg.
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