netdev - [PATCH net-next 13/32] rxrpc: Don't lock call->tx_lock to access call->tx

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Message-ID: <167034242563.1105287.10561421349650229204.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:00:25 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 13/32] rxrpc: Don't lock call->tx_lock to access
 call->tx_buffer

call->tx_buffer is now only accessed within the I/O thread (->tx_sendmsg is
the way sendmsg passes packets to the I/O thread) so there's no need to
lock around it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
cc: linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
---

 net/rxrpc/txbuf.c |   12 ++----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/txbuf.c b/net/rxrpc/txbuf.c
index d2cf2aac3adb..d43be8512386 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/txbuf.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/txbuf.c
@@ -110,12 +110,8 @@ void rxrpc_shrink_call_tx_buffer(struct rxrpc_call *call)
 
 	_enter("%x/%x/%x", call->tx_bottom, call->acks_hard_ack, call->tx_top);
 
-	for (;;) {
-		spin_lock(&call->tx_lock);
-		txb = list_first_entry_or_null(&call->tx_buffer,
-					       struct rxrpc_txbuf, call_link);
-		if (!txb)
-			break;
+	while ((txb = list_first_entry_or_null(&call->tx_buffer,
+					       struct rxrpc_txbuf, call_link))) {
 		hard_ack = smp_load_acquire(&call->acks_hard_ack);
 		if (before(hard_ack, txb->seq))
 			break;
@@ -128,15 +124,11 @@ void rxrpc_shrink_call_tx_buffer(struct rxrpc_call *call)
 
 		trace_rxrpc_txqueue(call, rxrpc_txqueue_dequeue);
 
-		spin_unlock(&call->tx_lock);
-
 		rxrpc_put_txbuf(txb, rxrpc_txbuf_put_rotated);
 		if (after(call->acks_hard_ack, call->tx_bottom + 128))
 			wake = true;
 	}
 
-	spin_unlock(&call->tx_lock);
-
 	if (wake)
 		wake_up(&call->waitq);
 }