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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2014-08-08 14:19:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-08 15:57:19 -0700
commit668128e90b9596668141539326178dacc42af188 (patch)
treed68268b71a156f2ed76999384e46d3dc36236975 /fs
parentautofs4: remove a redundant assignment (diff)
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autofs4: don't take spinlock when not needed in autofs4_lookup_expiring
If the expiring_list is empty, we can avoid a costly spinlock in the rcu-walk path through autofs4_d_manage (once the rest of the path becomes rcu-walk friendly). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/autofs4/root.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/root.c b/fs/autofs4/root.c
index cc87c1abac97..fb202cadd4b3 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/root.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/root.c
@@ -166,8 +166,10 @@ static struct dentry *autofs4_lookup_active(struct dentry *dentry)
const unsigned char *str = name->name;
struct list_head *p, *head;
- spin_lock(&sbi->lookup_lock);
head = &sbi->active_list;
+ if (list_empty(head))
+ return NULL;
+ spin_lock(&sbi->lookup_lock);
list_for_each(p, head) {
struct autofs_info *ino;
struct dentry *active;
@@ -218,8 +220,10 @@ static struct dentry *autofs4_lookup_expiring(struct dentry *dentry)
const unsigned char *str = name->name;
struct list_head *p, *head;
- spin_lock(&sbi->lookup_lock);
head = &sbi->expiring_list;
+ if (list_empty(head))
+ return NULL;
+ spin_lock(&sbi->lookup_lock);
list_for_each(p, head) {
struct autofs_info *ino;
struct dentry *expiring;