Re: [PATCH 30/33] block, aio: batch completion for bios/kiocbs

[Kent Overstreet]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 03:48:03PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:35:51AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > +		if (unlikely(req->ki_ctx != ctx)) {
> > +			kioctx_ring_unlock(ctx, tail);
> > +
> > +			ctx = req->ki_ctx;
> > +			tail = kioctx_ring_lock(ctx);
> > +		}
> 
> The only place where you're calling kioctx_ring_lock() is above, which
> is part of an unlock/lock pair.
> 
> There is also a kioctx_ring_unlock at the end of batch_complete_aio():
> 
> > +	kioctx_ring_unlock(ctx, tail);
> > +	local_irq_restore(flags);
> > +	rcu_read_unlock();
> 
> But I'm not seeing a matching kioctx_ring_lock() before the while loop
> in batch_complete_aio(), nor anywhere else in the file.  And since
> kioctx_ring_lock() is a static function....
> 
> Am I missing something?

We start out with ctx == NULL - we handle the initial kiocb the same way
we handle a kiocb with a different kioctx as the last one.
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