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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 06/23] kref: avoid an atomic operation in kref_put()
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:00:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11428920383213-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11428920383977-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>

Avoid an atomic operation in kref_put() when the last reference is
dropped. On most platforms, atomic_read() is a plan read of the counter
and involves no atomic at all.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---

 lib/kref.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

8b5536bbee53620f8d5f367987e5727ba36d886d
diff --git a/lib/kref.c b/lib/kref.c
index 0d07cc3..4a467fa 100644
--- a/lib/kref.c
+++ b/lib/kref.c
@@ -52,7 +52,12 @@ int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*r
 	WARN_ON(release == NULL);
 	WARN_ON(release == (void (*)(struct kref *))kfree);
 
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) {
+	/*
+	 * if current count is one, we are the last user and can release object
+	 * right now, avoiding an atomic operation on 'refcount'
+	 */
+	if ((atomic_read(&kref->refcount) == 1) ||
+	    (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount))) {
 		release(kref);
 		return 1;
 	}
-- 
1.2.4



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-20 21:50 [GIT PATCH] Driver Core and sysfs stuff for 2.6.16 Greg KH
2006-03-20 22:00 ` [PATCH 01/23] sysfs: sysfs_remove_dir() needs to invalidate the dentry Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00   ` [PATCH 02/23] kobject: fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00     ` [PATCH 03/23] Mark empty release functions as broken Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00       ` [PATCH 04/23] driver core: platform_get_irq*(): return -ENXIO on error Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00         ` [PATCH 05/23] handle errors returned by platform_get_irq*() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2006-03-20 22:00             ` [PATCH 07/23] kobj_map semaphore to mutex conversion Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00               ` [PATCH 08/23] Clean up module.c symbol searching logic Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                 ` [PATCH 09/23] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                   ` [PATCH 12/23] fix module sysfs files reference counting Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                     ` [PATCH 13/23] sysfs: kzalloc conversion Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                       ` [PATCH 14/23] firmware: fix BUG: in fw_realloc_buffer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                         ` [PATCH 15/23] Driver core: add macros notice(), dev_notice() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                           ` [PATCH 16/23] Kobject: provide better warning messages when people do stupid things Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                             ` [PATCH 17/23] Kobject: kobject.h: fix a typo Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                               ` [PATCH 18/23] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and files Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                                 ` [PATCH 19/23] debugfs: Add debugfs_create_blob() helper for exporting binary data Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                                   ` [PATCH 20/23] kobject_add_dir Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                                     ` [PATCH 21/23] get_cpu_sysdev() signedness fix Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                                       ` [PATCH 22/23] sysfs: don't export dir symbols Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-20 22:00                                         ` [PATCH 23/23] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-21 17:16                             ` [PATCH 16/23] Kobject: provide better warning messages when people do stupid things Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-22 22:17                               ` Greg KH
2006-03-25  8:52                                 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-20 22:00                   ` [PATCH 10/23] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() to RCU subsystem Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-03-21  0:13         ` [PATCH 04/23] driver core: platform_get_irq*(): return -ENXIO on error Olivier Galibert
2006-03-21  8:07           ` Russell King
2006-03-21 12:50             ` Olivier Galibert
2006-03-21 20:31               ` Russell King
2006-03-21 22:50                 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-03-21  9:33           ` David Vrabel
2006-03-20 23:35     ` [PATCH 02/23] kobject: fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n Jun'ichi Nomura

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