[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 5/5] ocfs2: Disable orphan scanning for local and hard-ro mounts

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 01:26:40PM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Joel Becker wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:40:07AM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> >> Local and Hard-RO mounts do not need orphan scanning.
> > 	I just realized that we hold the os->os_lock around everything
> > we do here.  The orphan scan state doesn't need to be atomic_t.
> 
> No we don't hold it across all ops. In ocfs2_orphan_scan_stop(), we set
> it inactive before taking the mutex. This allows ocfs2_queue_orphan_scan()
> to bail out without queuing the tasks. The idea is to prevent umount 
> slowdown
> - as much as possible.

	It still strikes me as over-optimized, but it was a criticism
better leveled at the initial patch.  This patch is about local and
hard-readonly, and it's ready to go.

Joel

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