Re: [RFC PATCH 08/21] pipe: Check for ring full inside of the spinlock in pipe_write()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Oct 15 2019 - 18:21:11 EST


On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 2:49 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> + if (head - pipe->tail == buffers) {

Can we just have helper inline functions for these things?

You describe them in the commit message of 03/21 (good), but it would
be even better if the code was just self-describing..

Linus