We used to have more code around the work loop, but now the goto and lock juggling just makes it less readable than it should. Get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- Came across this one while looking at related code. diff --git a/fs/io-wq.c b/fs/io-wq.c index 1efb134c98b7..013e12b9fabf 100644 --- a/fs/io-wq.c +++ b/fs/io-wq.c @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ static void io_worker_handle_work(struct io_worker *worker) do { struct io_wq_work *work; -get_next: + /* * If we got some work, mark us as busy. If we didn't, but * the list isn't empty, it means we stalled on hashed work. @@ -606,11 +606,6 @@ static void io_worker_handle_work(struct io_worker *worker) spin_unlock_irq(&wq->hash->wait.lock); if (wq_has_sleeper(&wq->hash->wait)) wake_up(&wq->hash->wait); - raw_spin_lock(&wqe->lock); - /* skip unnecessary unlock-lock wqe->lock */ - if (!work) - goto get_next; - raw_spin_unlock(&wqe->lock); } } while (work); -- Jens Axboe