From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: use mutex_lock in reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 20:35:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241807725-6263-8-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241807725-6263-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe() is a hack to avoid any dependency between
an internal reiserfs mutex and the write lock, it has been proposed
to follow the old bkl logic.
The code does the following:
while (!mutex_trylock(m)) {
reiserfs_write_unlock(s);
schedule();
reiserfs_write_lock(s);
}
It then imitate the implicit behaviour of the lock when it was
a Bkl and hadn't such dependency:
mutex_lock(m) {
if (fastpath)
let's go
else {
wait_for_mutex() {
schedule() {
unlock_kernel()
reacquire_lock_kernel()
}
}
}
}
The problem is that by using such explicit schedule(), we don't
benefit of the adaptive mutex spinning on owner.
The logic in use now is:
reiserfs_write_unlock(s);
mutex_lock(m); // -> possible adaptive spinning
reiserfs_write_lock(s);
[ Impact: restore the use of adaptive spinning mutexes in reiserfs ]
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
---
fs/reiserfs/journal.c | 8 +++-----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
index b1ebd5a..3c3e00d 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -566,11 +566,9 @@ static inline void insert_journal_hash(struct reiserfs_journal_cnode **table,
static inline void reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe(struct mutex *m,
struct super_block *s)
{
- while (!mutex_trylock(m)) {
- reiserfs_write_unlock(s);
- schedule();
- reiserfs_write_lock(s);
- }
+ reiserfs_write_unlock(s);
+ mutex_lock(m);
+ reiserfs_write_lock(s);
}
/* lock the current transaction */
--
1.6.2.3
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-08 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-08 18:35 [PATCH 0/7] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs performances updates Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-08 18:35 ` [PATCH 1/7] kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: add reiserfs_cond_resched() Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-08 18:35 ` [PATCH 2/7] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: conditionaly release the write lock on fs_changed() Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-08 18:35 ` [PATCH 3/7] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: lock only once on reiserfs_get_block() Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-08 18:35 ` [PATCH 4/7] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: don't hold the write recursively in reiserfs_lookup() Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-08 18:35 ` [PATCH 5/7] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: reduce number of contentions in search_by_key() Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-08 18:35 ` [PATCH 6/7] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: factorize the locking in reiserfs_write_end() Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-08 18:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
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