Use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old in update_io_ticks. x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction in front of cmpxchg). No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: Split patch from the original big patch --- block/blk-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index 27fb1357ad4b..628b965356db 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ void update_io_ticks(struct block_device *part, unsigned long now, bool end) again: stamp = READ_ONCE(part->bd_stamp); if (unlikely(time_after(now, stamp))) { - if (likely(cmpxchg(&part->bd_stamp, stamp, now) == stamp)) + if (likely(try_cmpxchg(&part->bd_stamp, &stamp, now))) __part_stat_add(part, io_ticks, end ? now - stamp : 1); } if (part->bd_partno) { -- 2.35.3