linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 542/542] pipe: use exclusive waits when reading or writing

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Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:28:23 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 542/542] pipe: use exclusive waits when
 reading or writing

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:20 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> You don't want to move wake_up_partner() up and call it from pipe_release()?

I was actually thinking of going the other way - two of three users of
wake_up_partner() are redundantly waking up the wrong side, and the
third user is pointlessly written too.

So I was _thinking_ of a patch like the appended (which is on top of
the previous patch), but ended up not doing it. Until you brought it
up.

But I won't bother committing this, since it shouldn't really matter.

                 Linus

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