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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-03-05 01:09:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-03-05 01:09:10 +0100 |
| commit | 9f24e4208f7ee2748f157368b63287dc903fcf60 (patch) | |
| tree | 255989fe69ebfb2b031dc7cf6dbe975df67c711a /fs/ext4/balloc.c | |
| parent | ext4: remove /proc tuning knobs (diff) | |
| download | linux-9f24e4208f7ee2748f157368b63287dc903fcf60.tar.xz linux-9f24e4208f7ee2748f157368b63287dc903fcf60.zip | |
ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups
Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's
to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/balloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/balloc.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c index b37b12875582..53c72ad85877 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c @@ -470,9 +470,8 @@ void ext4_add_groupblocks(handle_t *handle, struct super_block *sb, if (sbi->s_log_groups_per_flex) { ext4_group_t flex_group = ext4_flex_group(sbi, block_group); - spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, flex_group)); - sbi->s_flex_groups[flex_group].free_blocks += blocks_freed; - spin_unlock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, flex_group)); + atomic_add(blocks_freed, + &sbi->s_flex_groups[flex_group].free_blocks); } /* * request to reload the buddy with the |