Commit 39005d02 authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] locks: don't do unnecessary allocations

posix_lock_file() always allocates new locks in advance, even if it's easy to
determine that no allocations will be needed.

Optimize these cases:

 - FL_ACCESS flag is set

 - Unlocking the whole range
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 0d9a490a
......@@ -794,7 +794,8 @@ static int flock_lock_file(struct file *filp, struct file_lock *request)
static int __posix_lock_file_conf(struct inode *inode, struct file_lock *request, struct file_lock *conflock)
{
struct file_lock *fl;
struct file_lock *new_fl, *new_fl2;
struct file_lock *new_fl = NULL;
struct file_lock *new_fl2 = NULL;
struct file_lock *left = NULL;
struct file_lock *right = NULL;
struct file_lock **before;
......@@ -803,9 +804,15 @@ static int __posix_lock_file_conf(struct inode *inode, struct file_lock *request
/*
* We may need two file_lock structures for this operation,
* so we get them in advance to avoid races.
*
* In some cases we can be sure, that no new locks will be needed
*/
if (!(request->fl_flags & FL_ACCESS) &&
(request->fl_type != F_UNLCK ||
request->fl_start != 0 || request->fl_end != OFFSET_MAX)) {
new_fl = locks_alloc_lock();
new_fl2 = locks_alloc_lock();
}
lock_kernel();
if (request->fl_type != F_UNLCK) {
......
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