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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: release the write lock
	before rescheduling on do_journal_end()
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 00:20:02 +0200
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>, ReiserFS Development List <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>, Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>, Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:31:48PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:09:11AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > When do_journal_end() copies data to the journal blocks buffers in memory,
> > > it reschedules if needed between each block copied and dirtyfied.
> > > 
> > > We can also release the write lock at this rescheduling stage,
> > > like did the bkl implicitly.
> > > 
> > > [ Impact: release the reiserfs write lock when it is not needed ]
> > > 
> > > Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
> > > Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
> > > Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/reiserfs/journal.c |    2 ++
> > >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
> > > index 7976d7d..373d080 100644
> > > --- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
> > > +++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
> > > @@ -4232,7 +4232,9 @@ static int do_journal_end(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
> > >  		next = cn->next;
> > >  		free_cnode(sb, cn);
> > >  		cn = next;
> > > +		reiserfs_write_unlock(sb);
> > >  		cond_resched();
> > > +		reiserfs_write_lock(sb);
> > 
> > There's 8 cond_resched()'s in the code - i'd suggest to introduce a 
> > helper for this - reiserfs_write_cond_resched(sb) or so?
> > 
> > 	Ingo
> 
> Indeed, that + the pattern suggested by Al.



s/Al/Andi

Sorry for the confusion.

 
> Thanks.
>