[PATCH] remove BKL from ext2's readdir

[Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>]

hi!

I took a look at readdir() in 2.5.64's ext2 and found it serialized by BKL.
As far as I see in sources, there is no need in this BKL. So, here is small
patch and some benchmarks. of course, the result was expected pretty much ;)


             500         1000
readdir+BKL: 0m11.793s   0m23.403s
readdir-BKL: 0m6.060s    0m12.113s

description: two processes read own dir populated by files (500 and 1000 files).
this repeats for 100000 times. the iron is dual 1GHz P3.


diff -uNr linux/fs/ext2/dir.c edited/fs/ext2/dir.c
--- linux/fs/ext2/dir.c	Sat Mar 15 13:08:24 2003
+++ edited/fs/ext2/dir.c	Sat Mar 15 13:08:11 2003
@@ -259,8 +259,6 @@
 	int need_revalidate = (filp->f_version != inode->i_version);
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	lock_kernel();
-
 	if (pos > inode->i_size - EXT2_DIR_REC_LEN(1))
 		goto done;
 
@@ -313,7 +311,6 @@
 	filp->f_pos = (n << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) | offset;
 	filp->f_version = inode->i_version;
 	UPDATE_ATIME(inode);
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return 0;
 }