diff options
author | Christoph Hellwig | 2011-12-18 20:00:09 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | Ben Myers | 2012-01-17 15:06:45 -0600 |
commit | 474fce067521a40dbacc722e8ba119e81c2d31bf (patch) | |
tree | fd923aa42a5304182e8a8c64ca5d130f9afef286 /Documentation/cpu-freq | |
parent | 49e4c70e52a2bc2090e5a4e003e2888af21d6a2b (diff) |
xfs: replace i_flock with a sleeping bitlock
We almost never block on i_flock, the exception is synchronous inode
flushing. Instead of bloating the inode with a 16/24-byte completion
that we abuse as a semaphore just implement it as a bitlock that uses
a bit waitqueue for the rare sleeping path. This primarily is a
tradeoff between a much smaller inode and a faster non-blocking
path vs faster wakeups, and we are much better off with the former.
A small downside is that we will lose lockdep checking for i_flock, but
given that it's always taken inside the ilock that should be acceptable.
Note that for example the inode writeback locking is implemented in a
very similar way.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cpu-freq')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions