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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] irq-poll: Reduce local_irq_save/restore operations in irq_poll_softirq
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:18:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161113151802.GD7578@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478991755-28153-4-git-send-email-sagi@grimberg.me>

> +	while (!list_empty(&list)) {

Maybe do a list_first_entry_or_null here if you're touching the list
iteration anyway?

> +	local_irq_disable();
> +	list_splice_tail_init(iop_list, &list);
> +	list_splice(&list, iop_list);
> +
>  	if (rearm)
>  		__raise_softirq_irqoff(IRQ_POLL_SOFTIRQ);

Maybe check if we have a non-empty list before disabling irqs?
Also that list_emtpy check can replace the rearm condition - we only
set the rearm flag if we break with a non-empty local list now.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-13 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-12 23:02 [PATCH 0/3] micro-optimize irq-poll Sagi Grimberg
2016-11-12 23:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] irq-poll: Remove redundant include Sagi Grimberg
2016-11-13 15:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-12 23:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] irq-poll: micro optimize some branch predictions Sagi Grimberg
2016-11-13 15:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-14  0:49     ` Sagi Grimberg
2016-11-12 23:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] irq-poll: Reduce local_irq_save/restore operations in irq_poll_softirq Sagi Grimberg
2016-11-13 15:18   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-11-14  1:02     ` Sagi Grimberg

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