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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] splice : two smp_mb() can be omitted
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:25:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4546FA81.1020804@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061030224802.f73842b8.akpm@osdl.org>

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This patch deletes two calls to smp_mb() that were done after mutex_unlock() 
that contains an implicit memory barrier.

The first one in splice_to_pipe(), where 'do_wakeup' is set to true only if 
pipe->inode is set (and in this case the
if (pipe->inode)
    mutex_unlock(&pipe->inode->i_mutex);
is done too)

The second one in link_pipe(), following inode_double_unlock() that contains 
calls to mutex_unlock() too.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

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--- linux/fs/splice.c	2006-10-31 07:49:52.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-ed/fs/splice.c	2006-10-31 08:04:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -248,7 +248,6 @@
 		mutex_unlock(&pipe->inode->i_mutex);
 
 	if (do_wakeup) {
-		smp_mb();
 		if (waitqueue_active(&pipe->wait))
 			wake_up_interruptible(&pipe->wait);
 		kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
@@ -1518,7 +1517,6 @@
 	 * If we put data in the output pipe, wakeup any potential readers.
 	 */
 	if (ret > 0) {
-		smp_mb();
 		if (waitqueue_active(&opipe->wait))
 			wake_up_interruptible(&opipe->wait);
 		kill_fasync(&opipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN);

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-30  9:03 [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested() Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-30  9:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] lockdep: annotate bcsp driver Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-30  9:06   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-30  9:30   ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-10-30  9:31   ` [PATCH 2/2] lockdep: annotate bcsp driver - v2 Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-30  9:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested() Ingo Molnar
2006-10-30 13:12 ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-10-30 13:27   ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-10-30 13:40   ` [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested() -v2 Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-30 14:12     ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-10-31  6:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested() Andrew Morton
2006-10-31  7:25   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2006-10-31  7:32     ` [PATCH] splice : two smp_mb() can be omitted Jens Axboe
2006-10-31  7:41       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-31  7:46         ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-31  9:40     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-31  9:49       ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-31 10:51       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-31 22:16         ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-31 23:08           ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-31 23:45             ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-02 17:02         ` [PATCH] splice : Must fully check for fifos Eric Dumazet
2006-11-02 17:05           ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-02 19:07             ` Jens Axboe
2006-11-03  8:50               ` Jens Axboe

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