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authorGoldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>2016-01-15 02:17:35 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-15 03:00:49 +0300
commit1cce4df04f37d3f7b969e85528fa54f918a06f03 (patch)
tree77755e8b83e444e1d7a7be7c9384735446666e8c /fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
parent1247017f43a93eae3d64b7c25f3637dc545f5a47 (diff)
downloadlinux-1cce4df04f37d3f7b969e85528fa54f918a06f03.tar.xz
ocfs2: do not lock/unlock() inode DLM lock
DLM does not cache locks. So, blocking lock and unlock will only make the performance worse where contention over the locks is high. Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Reviewed-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
index 20276e340339..f92612e4b9d6 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
@@ -2432,12 +2432,6 @@ bail:
* done this we have to return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE so the aop method
* that called us can bubble that back up into the VFS who will then
* immediately retry the aop call.
- *
- * We do a blocking lock and immediate unlock before returning, though, so that
- * the lock has a great chance of being cached on this node by the time the VFS
- * calls back to retry the aop. This has a potential to livelock as nodes
- * ping locks back and forth, but that's a risk we're willing to take to avoid
- * the lock inversion simply.
*/
int ocfs2_inode_lock_with_page(struct inode *inode,
struct buffer_head **ret_bh,
@@ -2449,8 +2443,6 @@ int ocfs2_inode_lock_with_page(struct inode *inode,
ret = ocfs2_inode_lock_full(inode, ret_bh, ex, OCFS2_LOCK_NONBLOCK);
if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
unlock_page(page);
- if (ocfs2_inode_lock(inode, ret_bh, ex) == 0)
- ocfs2_inode_unlock(inode, ex);
ret = AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE;
}