Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add comment explaining task state setting inbdi_forker_thread()

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Sep 05 2011 - 11:55:45 EST


On Mon 05-09-11 20:44:11, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:01:41PM +0800, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Sun 04-09-11 11:05:51, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > > @@ -401,6 +401,13 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr)
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
> > > > + /*
> > > > + * In the following loop we are going to check whether we have
> > > > + * some work to do without any synchronization with tasks
> > > > + * waking us up to do work for them. So we have to set task
> > > > + * state already here so that we don't miss wakeups coming
> > >
> > > s/already/early/ ?
> > Thanks for review. We'd have to substitute 'already here' with 'early'
> > for the sentence to make make sense. But frankly I don't see why one would
> > be better than the other one...
>
> You are the native English speaker? OK, I have no more problems... ;)
No, I'm not a native English speaker. Maybe that's why I don't see that
much difference :-))

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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