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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-12-08 00:21:01 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-12-08 00:21:01 +0300
commita28c8b9db8a1014aa572cd19a3bdb9ddebd3e555 (patch)
tree4f6d8476972bb9b493267df6d0ae021b81519c15 /fs/splice.c
parentf467a6a66419a18f782f87507464a5dedc942dec (diff)
downloadlinux-a28c8b9db8a1014aa572cd19a3bdb9ddebd3e555.tar.xz
pipe: remove 'waiting_writers' merging logic
This code is ancient, and goes back to when we only had a single page for the pipe buffers. The exact history is hidden in the mists of time (ie "before git", and in fact predates the BK repository too). At that long-ago point in time, it actually helped to try to merge big back-and-forth pipe reads and writes, and not limit pipe reads to the single pipe buffer in length just because that was all we had at a time. However, since then we've expanded the pipe buffers to multiple pages, and this logic really doesn't seem to make sense. And a lot of it is somewhat questionable (ie "hmm, the user asked for a non-blocking read, but we see that there's a writer pending, so let's wait anyway to get the extra data that the writer will have"). But more importantly, it makes the "go to sleep" logic much less obvious, and considering the wakeup issues we've had, I want to make for less of those kinds of things. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/splice.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/splice.c21
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index fa1f3773c8cd..3009652a41c8 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ static int splice_from_pipe_next(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct splice_des
if (!pipe->writers)
return 0;
- if (!pipe->waiting_writers && sd->num_spliced)
+ if (sd->num_spliced)
return 0;
if (sd->flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK)
@@ -1098,9 +1098,7 @@ static int wait_for_space(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, unsigned flags)
return -EAGAIN;
if (signal_pending(current))
return -ERESTARTSYS;
- pipe->waiting_writers++;
pipe_wait(pipe);
- pipe->waiting_writers--;
}
}
@@ -1482,11 +1480,9 @@ static int ipipe_prep(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, unsigned int flags)
}
if (!pipe->writers)
break;
- if (!pipe->waiting_writers) {
- if (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK) {
- ret = -EAGAIN;
- break;
- }
+ if (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK) {
+ ret = -EAGAIN;
+ break;
}
pipe_wait(pipe);
}
@@ -1527,9 +1523,7 @@ static int opipe_prep(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, unsigned int flags)
ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
break;
}
- pipe->waiting_writers++;
pipe_wait(pipe);
- pipe->waiting_writers--;
}
pipe_unlock(pipe);
@@ -1751,13 +1745,6 @@ static int link_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe,
i_tail++;
} while (len);
- /*
- * return EAGAIN if we have the potential of some data in the
- * future, otherwise just return 0
- */
- if (!ret && ipipe->waiting_writers && (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK))
- ret = -EAGAIN;
-
pipe_unlock(ipipe);
pipe_unlock(opipe);