Re: [External] Re: [PATCH V4 4/5] cachefiles: narrow the scope of triggering EPOLLIN events in ondemand mode

From: Jia Zhu
Date: Wed Mar 29 2023 - 04:09:22 EST




在 2023/3/28 22:19, David Howells 写道:
Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+ if (!xa_empty(xa)) {
+ xa_lock(xa);
+ xa_for_each_marked(xa, index, req, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW) {
+ if (!cachefiles_ondemand_is_reopening_read(req)) {
+ mask |= EPOLLIN;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ xa_unlock(xa);
+ }

I wonder if there's a more efficient way to do this. I guess it depends on
how many reqs you expect to get in a queue. It might be worth taking the
rcu_read_lock before calling xa_lock() and holding it over the whole loop.

Thanks for the advice, will use rcu_read_lock(unlock) to replace it.
David