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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] task_work: avoid unneeded cmpxchg() in task_work_run()
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:04:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349780697.7880.14.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121008123815.GA847@redhat.com>

On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 14:38 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> But the code looks more complex, and the only advantage is that
> non-exiting task does xchg() instead of cmpxchg(). Not sure this
> worth the trouble, in this case task_work_run() will likey run
> the callbacks (the caller checks ->task_works != NULL), I do not
> think this can add any noticeable speedup. 

Yeah, I agree, the patch doesn't seem worth the trouble. It makes tricky
code unreadable at best.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-09 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-08  9:18 [PATCH] task_work: avoid unneeded cmpxchg() in task_work_run() Lai Jiangshan
2012-10-08 12:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-09 11:04   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-10-10  5:37     ` [PATCH V2] " Lai Jiangshan
2012-10-10 17:50       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-10 17:50         ` Peter Zijlstra

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