From 830a1e5c212fb3fdc83b66359c780c3b3a294897 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin LaHaise Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:22:32 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [AF_UNIX]: Remove superfluous reference counting in unix_stream_sendmsg AF_UNIX stream socket performance on P4 CPUs tends to suffer due to a lot of pipeline flushes from atomic operations. The patch below removes the sock_hold() and sock_put() in unix_stream_sendmsg(). This should be safe as the socket still holds a reference to its peer which is only released after the file descriptor's final user invokes unix_release_sock(). The only consideration is that we must add a memory barrier before setting the peer initially. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/unix/af_unix.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c index acc73ba8bade..1dc3685048f3 100644 --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c @@ -1063,10 +1063,12 @@ restart: /* Set credentials */ sk->sk_peercred = other->sk_peercred; - sock_hold(newsk); - unix_peer(sk) = newsk; sock->state = SS_CONNECTED; sk->sk_state = TCP_ESTABLISHED; + sock_hold(newsk); + + smp_mb__after_atomic_inc(); /* sock_hold() does an atomic_inc() */ + unix_peer(sk) = newsk; unix_state_wunlock(sk); @@ -1414,7 +1416,7 @@ static int unix_stream_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock, } else { sunaddr = NULL; err = -ENOTCONN; - other = unix_peer_get(sk); + other = unix_peer(sk); if (!other) goto out_err; } @@ -1476,7 +1478,6 @@ static int unix_stream_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock, other->sk_data_ready(other, size); sent+=size; } - sock_put(other); scm_destroy(siocb->scm); siocb->scm = NULL; @@ -1491,8 +1492,6 @@ pipe_err: send_sig(SIGPIPE,current,0); err = -EPIPE; out_err: - if (other) - sock_put(other); scm_destroy(siocb->scm); siocb->scm = NULL; return sent ? : err; -- 2.20.1