linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4 v2] NFS: slight optimization for walking list for delegations

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Message-ID: <20180604173141.0a154b80@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:31:41 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:     Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4 v2] NFS: slight optimization for walking list for
 delegations

On Thu, 31 May 2018 15:23:22 +1000
NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com> wrote:

> There are 3 places where we walk the list of delegations
> for an nfs_client.
> In each case there are two nested loops, one for nfs_servers
> and one for nfs_delegations.
> 
> When we find an interesting delegation we try to get an active
> reference to the server.  If that fails, it is pointless to
> continue to look at the other delegation for the server as
> we will never be able to get an active reference.
> So instead of continuing in the inner loop, break out
> and continue in the outer loop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
> ---
> 
> This time with a Signed-off-by - sorry.
> I took the opportunity to follow Steven's suggestion
> of adding a comment to the new 'break' statements.
> 

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve