Re: [PATCH RESEND] ceph:Remove unneeded locking/unlocking of session mutex in the function drop_leases

From: Yan, Zheng
Date: Wed Jan 13 2016 - 03:25:48 EST



> On Jan 12, 2016, at 21:36, Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This removes the unneeded lock/unlocking of the session mutex as
> part of the structure pointer s of type ceph_mds_session as this
> locking/unlocking of the session mutex does not protect any
> critical region and thus only wastes time in acquiring and unlocking
> this mutex in the function drop_leases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> index 51cb02d..f987054 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> @@ -3322,8 +3322,6 @@ static void drop_leases(struct ceph_mds_client *mdsc)
> if (!s)
> continue;
> mutex_unlock(&mdsc->mutex);
> - mutex_lock(&s->s_mutex);
> - mutex_unlock(&s->s_mutex);
> ceph_put_mds_session(s);
> mutex_lock(&mdsc->mutex);
> }

the lock/unlock waits any code in critical region to exit


> --
> 2.1.4
>