Re: [PATCH] scsi: target: Save a few cycles in 'transport_lookup_[cmd|tmr]_lun()'

[Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>]

On 11/3/21 4:24 PM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Use 'percpu_ref_tryget_live_rcu()' instead of 'percpu_ref_tryget_live()' to
> save a few cycles when it is known that the rcu lock is already
> taken/released.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
>  drivers/target/target_core_device.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_device.c b/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
> index 44bb380e7390..bfd5d5606522 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ transport_lookup_cmd_lun(struct se_cmd *se_cmd)
>  
>  		se_lun = rcu_dereference(deve->se_lun);
>  
> -		if (!percpu_ref_tryget_live(&se_lun->lun_ref)) {
> +		if (!percpu_ref_tryget_live_rcu(&se_lun->lun_ref)) {
>  			se_lun = NULL;
>  			goto out_unlock;
>  		}
> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ int transport_lookup_tmr_lun(struct se_cmd *se_cmd)
>  	if (deve) {
>  		se_lun = rcu_dereference(deve->se_lun);
>  
> -		if (!percpu_ref_tryget_live(&se_lun->lun_ref)) {
> +		if (!percpu_ref_tryget_live_rcu(&se_lun->lun_ref)) {
>  			se_lun = NULL;
>  			goto out_unlock;
>  		}

The patch looks ok.

You just got a little unlucky because the Martin just put some
conflicting patches into his 5.20 staging branch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/log/?h=5.20/scsi-staging

so I think you want to build your patch against that tree and branch.