From 833f73299fdf4497af1552e219e95661f4d2cdca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Kleikamp Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:12:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] EXT2: Remove superblock lock contention in ext2_statfs Fix a performance degradation introduced in 2.6.17. (30% degradation running dbench with 16 threads) Commit 21730eed11de42f22afcbd43f450a1872a0b5ea1, which claims to make EXT2_DEBUG work again, moves the taking of the kernel lock out of debug-only code in ext2_count_free_inodes and ext2_count_free_blocks and into ext2_statfs. The same problem was fixed in ext3 by removing the lock completely (commit 5b11687924e40790deb0d5f959247ade82196665) Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ext2/ialloc.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/ext2/ialloc.c') diff --git a/fs/ext2/ialloc.c b/fs/ext2/ialloc.c index de85c61c58c5..695f69ccf908 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext2/ialloc.c @@ -637,7 +637,6 @@ fail: return ERR_PTR(err); } -/* Superblock must be locked */ unsigned long ext2_count_free_inodes (struct super_block * sb) { struct ext2_group_desc *desc; -- cgit