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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2007-09-14 08:41:12 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-09-14 13:56:47 -0700
commitdd941252a81b02b5915e2db160fe02c972875846 (patch)
tree83414a197b2d831a9df3a11e31d277a1dfa4ae68
parent19299b1a722198830e39264a0f2edadd3fde74c2 (diff)
shared tag queue barrier comment
Should add some comments for the tag barriers (they won't be so important if we can switch over to the explicit _lock bitops, but for now we should make it clear). Jens' original patch said a barrier after the test_and_clear_bit was also required. I can't see why (and it would prevent the use of the _lock bitop). Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --
-rw-r--r--block/ll_rw_blk.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index cd20367061d7..ed39313c4085 100644
--- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -1085,6 +1085,12 @@ void blk_queue_end_tag(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
bqt->tag_index[tag] = NULL;
+ /*
+ * We use test_and_clear_bit's memory ordering properties here.
+ * The tag_map bit acts as a lock for tag_index[bit], so we need
+ * a barrer before clearing the bit (precisely: release semantics).
+ * Could use clear_bit_unlock when it is merged.
+ */
if (unlikely(!test_and_clear_bit(tag, bqt->tag_map))) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: attempt to clear non-busy tag (%d)\n",
__FUNCTION__, tag);
@@ -1137,6 +1143,10 @@ int blk_queue_start_tag(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
return 1;
} while (test_and_set_bit(tag, bqt->tag_map));
+ /*
+ * We rely on test_and_set_bit providing lock memory ordering semantics
+ * (could use test_and_set_bit_lock when it is merged).
+ */
rq->cmd_flags |= REQ_QUEUED;
rq->tag = tag;