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| author | Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com> | 2022-02-11 14:52:21 +0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2022-02-14 11:16:40 +0000 |
| commit | 2e13bde1315373cf7e9fb7dc4330d0d2a6bd5417 (patch) | |
| tree | 273eaad0b608c23b84a258081a11dd82602ed584 /net/smc | |
| parent | 806c37ddcf286665adce5c3a99b5fe4424cbf9fe (diff) | |
net/smc: Add comment for smc_tx_pending
The previous patch introduces a lock-free version of smc_tx_work() to
solve unnecessary lock contention, which is expected to be held lock.
So this adds comment to remind people to keep an eye out for locks.
Suggested-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/smc')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/smc/smc_tx.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_tx.c b/net/smc/smc_tx.c index a96ce162825e..5df3940d4543 100644 --- a/net/smc/smc_tx.c +++ b/net/smc/smc_tx.c @@ -611,6 +611,10 @@ int smc_tx_sndbuf_nonempty(struct smc_connection *conn) return rc; } +/* Wakeup sndbuf consumers from process context + * since there is more data to transmit. The caller + * must hold sock lock. + */ void smc_tx_pending(struct smc_connection *conn) { struct smc_sock *smc = container_of(conn, struct smc_sock, conn); @@ -626,7 +630,8 @@ void smc_tx_pending(struct smc_connection *conn) } /* Wakeup sndbuf consumers from process context - * since there is more data to transmit + * since there is more data to transmit in locked + * sock. */ void smc_tx_work(struct work_struct *work) { |