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The idea of this patch is from Davidlohr Bueso, he posts a patch for bcache to optimize barrier usage for read-modify-write atomic bitops. Indeed such optimization can also apply on other locations where smp_mb() is used before or after an atomic operation. This patch replaces smp_mb() with smp_mb__before_atomic() or smp_mb__after_atomic() in btree.c and writeback.c, where it is used to synchronize memory cache just earlier on other cores. Although the locations are not on hot code path, it is always not bad to mkae things a little better. Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.