fs/epoll: avoid barrier after an epoll_wait(2) timeout
authorDavidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Thu, 3 Jan 2019 23:27:19 +0000 (15:27 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fri, 4 Jan 2019 21:13:46 +0000 (13:13 -0800)
commitabc610e01c663e25c41a3bdcbc4115cd7fbb047b
treebf1652615120062bc27a0dc5b6250974a81664cd
parentc5a282e9635e9c7382821565083db5d260085e3e
fs/epoll: avoid barrier after an epoll_wait(2) timeout

Upon timeout, we can just exit out of the loop, without the cost of the
changing the task's state with an smp_store_mb call.  Just exit out of
the loop and be done - setting the task state afterwards will be, of
course, redundant.

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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181109155258.jxcr4t2pnz6zqct3@linux-r8p5
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Baron <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
fs/eventpoll.c