Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname withouttaking rename_lock

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch will replace the writer's write_seqlock/write_sequnlock
> sequence of the rename_lock of the callers of the prepend_path() and
> __dentry_path() functions with the reader's read_seqbegin/read_seqretry
> sequence within these 2 functions.

Ok, this actually looks really good.

I do have one comment, from just reading the patch:

I would really like the stuff inside the

   restart:
      bptr = *buffer;
      blen = *buflen;
      if (retry_cnt) {
            seq = read_seqbegin(&rename_lock);
            rcu_read_lock();
      } else
            write_seqlock(&rename_lock);

      ... guts of path generation ...

      if (retry_cnt) {
            retry_cnt--;
            rcu_read_unlock();
            if (read_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq))
                  goto restart;
      } else
            write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);

could possible be done as a separate function?

Alternatively (or perhaps additionally), maybe the locking could be
done as an inline function too (taking the retry count as an argument)
to make things a bit more easy to understand.

Right now there is a lot of fairly subtle things going on in that
__dentry_path() function. It's not a huge function, but I think that
"while()" loop inside that locking could be done as its own function
and make it even more readable.

But I could already apply this as-is, so it's not a big deal.

Al - do you have comments? Do you want to take this through your tree,
or are you working on other things? I can take this directly too..

                 Linus
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