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Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:28:50 -0500
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfq: Remove useless css reference get

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:38:43PM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
> There's no need to take css reference here, for the caller
> has already called rcu_read_lock() to prevent cgroup from 
> being removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>
> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>

Thanks
Vivek

> ---
>  block/blk-cgroup.c  |   14 --------------
>  block/blk-cgroup.h  |    3 ---
>  block/cfq-iosched.c |    5 -----
>  3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
> index 1fa2654..cba28f4 100644
> --- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
> +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
> @@ -23,20 +23,6 @@ static LIST_HEAD(blkio_list);
>  struct blkio_cgroup blkio_root_cgroup = { .weight = 2*BLKIO_WEIGHT_DEFAULT };
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkio_root_cgroup);
>  
> -bool blkiocg_css_tryget(struct blkio_cgroup *blkcg)
> -{
> -	if (!css_tryget(&blkcg->css))
> -		return false;
> -	return true;
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkiocg_css_tryget);
> -
> -void blkiocg_css_put(struct blkio_cgroup *blkcg)
> -{
> -	css_put(&blkcg->css);
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkiocg_css_put);
> -
>  struct blkio_cgroup *cgroup_to_blkio_cgroup(struct cgroup *cgroup)
>  {
>  	return container_of(cgroup_subsys_state(cgroup, blkio_subsys_id),
> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h
> index 4d316df..84bf745 100644
> --- a/block/blk-cgroup.h
> +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h
> @@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ struct blkio_group {
>  	unsigned long sectors;
>  };
>  
> -extern bool blkiocg_css_tryget(struct blkio_cgroup *blkcg);
> -extern void blkiocg_css_put(struct blkio_cgroup *blkcg);
> -
>  typedef void (blkio_unlink_group_fn) (void *key, struct blkio_group *blkg);
>  typedef void (blkio_update_group_weight_fn) (struct blkio_group *blkg,
>  						unsigned int weight);
> diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> index e2f8046..5d6b427 100644
> --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
> +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> @@ -958,10 +958,6 @@ cfq_find_alloc_cfqg(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cgroup *cgroup, int create)
>  	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = &cfqd->queue->backing_dev_info;
>  	unsigned int major, minor;
>  
> -	/* Do we need to take this reference */
> -	if (!blkiocg_css_tryget(blkcg))
> -		return NULL;;
> -
>  	cfqg = cfqg_of_blkg(blkiocg_lookup_group(blkcg, key));
>  	if (cfqg || !create)
>  		goto done;
> @@ -992,7 +988,6 @@ cfq_find_alloc_cfqg(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cgroup *cgroup, int create)
>  	hlist_add_head(&cfqg->cfqd_node, &cfqd->cfqg_list);
>  
>  done:
> -	blkiocg_css_put(blkcg);
>  	return cfqg;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.5.4.rc3
> 
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