Re: [patch,rfc v2] ext3/4: enhance fsync performance when using cfq

From: Jeff Moyer
Date: Thu Apr 08 2010 - 15:11:29 EST


Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> @@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@ static void cfq_choose_cfqg(struct cfq_data *cfqd)
>> cfqd->serving_group = cfqg;
>>
>> /* Restore the workload type data */
>> - if (cfqg->saved_workload_slice) {
>> + if (cfqg && cfqg->saved_workload_slice) {
>> cfqd->workload_expires = jiffies + cfqg->saved_workload_slice;
>> cfqd->serving_type = cfqg->saved_workload;
>> cfqd->serving_prio = cfqg->saved_serving_prio;
>
> Unrelated change?

Probably not needed for this incarnation of the patch, though previous
iterations would Oops on boot w/o this. If you look through all of the
code in this code path, cfqg == NULL seems to be handled, so it's
probably safe to take this. I'll pull it out of this patch, though.

>> +static void cfq_yield(struct request_queue *q)
>> +{
>> + struct cfq_data *cfqd = q->elevator->elevator_data;
>> + struct cfq_io_context *cic;
>> + struct cfq_queue *cfqq;
>> + unsigned long flags;
>> +
>> + cic = cfq_cic_lookup(cfqd, current->io_context);
>> + if (!cic)
>> + return;
>> +
>> + spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
>
> spin_lock_irq() is sufficient here.

OK, thanks!

Jeff
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