Re: [PATCH for-next] dm: fix missing bi_remaining accounting

[Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 04 2013 at 10:25am -0500,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> wrote:

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> 
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Mike Snitzer wrote:
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> > On Mon, Nov 04 2013 at 10:06am -0500,
> > Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > The code uses atomic_inc for restoration of bi_remaining. This patch
> > > changes it to atomic_set(1) to avoid an interlocked instruction. In the
> > > target's bi_endio routine we are sure that bi_remaining is zero
> > > (otherwise, the bi_endio routine wouldn't be called) and there are no
> > > concurrent users of the bio, so we can replace atomic_inc with
> > > atomic_set(1).
> > 
> > This isn't DM-specific.  Shouldn't the other places in the tree that use
> > atomic_inc on bi_remaining should really be converted at the same time?
> 
> There is no 'atomic_inc.*bi_remaining' in other drivers.

Wrong.  I know btrfs has at least one.  As does bcache afaik.