From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Kennedy Subject: [PATCH] fs: inode.c use atomic_inc_return in __iget Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 10:49:22 +0100 Message-ID: <1273830562.1986.22.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lkml , linux-fsdevel To: Andrew Morton , Alexander Viro Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Using atomic_inc_return in __iget(struct inode *inode) makes the intent of this code clearer and generates less code on processors that have this operation. On x86_64 this patch reduces the text size of inode.o by 12 bytes. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy ---- patch against 2.6.34-rc7 compiled & tested on x86_64 AMD X2 I've been running with this patch applied for several weeks with no obvious problems. regards Richard diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 407bf39..b405028 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -286,11 +286,9 @@ static void init_once(void *foo) */ void __iget(struct inode *inode) { - if (atomic_read(&inode->i_count)) { - atomic_inc(&inode->i_count); + if (atomic_inc_return(&inode->i_count) != 1) return; - } - atomic_inc(&inode->i_count); + if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_SYNC))) list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use); inodes_stat.nr_unused--;