Re: [PATCH 0/1] aio: change exit_aio() to load mm->ioctx_table once and avoid rcu_read_lock()

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 08:39:15PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Completely untested and I know nothing about aio, thus needs an ack
> from maintainers or should be ignored.
> 
> But exit_aio() looks "obviously unnecessarily overcomplicated", I was
> really puzzled when I looked at this code by accident.
> 
> Kent, could you also explain kioctx->dead is atomic_t? This looks
> pointless? afaics atomic_ buys nothing in this case.

If it wasn't atomic, it would need to be volatile.

		-ben
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