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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-05-08 14:21:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-09-14 07:18:19 +0200 |
| commit | 09eb47a7c52ad535aafca889e0b936c445c375ce (patch) | |
| tree | 81ebee49cb84f29e0aa3d884f6ed9c23ab044218 /fs | |
| parent | b1c839bb2d8d6f1f6bf48f5c657752b4963f88f8 (diff) | |
kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: reduce number of contentions in search_by_key()
search_by_key() is a central function in reiserfs which searches
the patch in the fs tree from the root to a node given its key.
It is the function that is most requesting the write lock
because it's a path very often used.
Also we forget to release the lock while reading the next tree node,
making us holding the lock in a wasteful way.
Then we release the lock while reading the current node and its childs,
all-in-one. It should be safe because we have a reference to these
blocks and even if we read a block that will be concurrently changed,
we have an fs_changed check later that will make us retry the path from
the root.
[ Impact: release the write lock while unused in a hot path ]
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/reiserfs/stree.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/stree.c b/fs/reiserfs/stree.c index 6ddcecb4e8a..960c9114f6d 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/stree.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/stree.c @@ -529,6 +529,14 @@ static void search_by_key_reada(struct super_block *s, for (i = 0; i < num; i++) { bh[i] = sb_getblk(s, b[i]); } + /* + * We are going to read some blocks on which we + * have a reference. It's safe, though we might be + * reading blocks concurrently changed if we release + * the lock. But it's still fine because we check later + * if the tree changed + */ + reiserfs_write_unlock(s); for (j = 0; j < i; j++) { /* * note, this needs attention if we are getting rid of the BKL @@ -626,10 +634,12 @@ int search_by_key(struct super_block *sb, const struct cpu_key *key, /* Key to s if ((bh = last_element->pe_buffer = sb_getblk(sb, block_number))) { if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) && reada_count > 1) + /* will unlock the write lock */ search_by_key_reada(sb, reada_bh, reada_blocks, reada_count); + else + reiserfs_write_unlock(sb); ll_rw_block(READ, 1, &bh); - reiserfs_write_unlock(sb); wait_on_buffer(bh); reiserfs_write_lock(sb); if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) |