From b6e90822e77cd476c18410f7003197d466e36ac6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:47:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ipc/sem.c: optimize if semops fail Reduce the amount of scanning of the list of pending semaphore operations: If try_atomic_semop failed, then no changes were applied. Thus no need to restart. Additionally, this patch correct an incorrect comment: It's possible to wait for arbitrary semaphore values (do a dec by <x>, wait-for-zero, inc by <x> in one atomic operation) Both changes are from Nick Piggin, the patch is the result of a different split of the individual changes. Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- ipc/sem.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c index 2705fbbc4374..eac3f46a5968 100644 --- a/ipc/sem.c +++ b/ipc/sem.c @@ -445,13 +445,13 @@ again: * of the completed operation: * - if the operation modified the array, then restart from the * head of the queue and check for threads that might be - * waiting for semaphore values to become 0. + * waiting for the new semaphore values. * - if the operation didn't modify the array, then just * continue. */ alter = q->alter; wake_up_sem_queue(q, error); - if (alter) + if (alter && !error) goto again; } } -- GitLab