fs/epoll: avoid barrier after an epoll_wait(2) timeout
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Thu, 3 Jan 2019 23:27:19 +0000 (15:27 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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.

[dave@stgolabs.net: forgotten fixlets]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181109155258.jxcr4t2pnz6zqct3@linux-r8p5
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108051006.18751-7-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/eventpoll.c