linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC] sched: completion: lock-free checking of the blocking case

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Message-Id: <1422013307-13200-1-git-send-email-der.herr@hofr.at>
Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:41:47 +0100
From:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] sched: completion: lock-free checking of the blocking case

The "thread would block" case can be checked without grabbing the lock

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
---

If the check does not return early then grab the lock and recheck.
A memory barrier is not needed as complete() and complete_all() imply
a barrier.

The ACCESS_ONCE is needed for calls in a loop that, if inlined, could
optimize out the re-fetching of x->done.

 kernel/sched/completion.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/completion.c b/kernel/sched/completion.c
index 7c5cd70..5f7cf31 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/completion.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/completion.c
@@ -268,6 +268,15 @@ bool try_wait_for_completion(struct completion *x)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret = 1;
 
+	/*
+	 * Since x->done will need to be locked only
+	 * in the non-blocking case, we check x->done
+	 * first without taking the lock so we can
+	 * return early in the blocking case.
+	 */
+	if (!ACCESS_ONCE(x->done))
+		return 0;
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
 	if (!x->done)
 		ret = 0;
-- 
1.7.10.4

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