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authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2011-01-19 12:30:01 +0300
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2011-01-21 12:39:08 +0300
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GFS2: Use RCU for glock hash table
This has a number of advantages: - Reduces contention on the hash table lock - Makes the code smaller and simpler - Should speed up glock dumps when under load - Removes ref count changing in examine_bucket - No longer need hash chain lock in glock_put() in common case There are some further changes which this enables and which we may do in the future. One is to look at using SLAB_RCU, and another is to look at using a per-cpu counter for the per-sb glock counter, since that is touched twice in the lifetime of each glock (but only used at umount time). Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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