From 9f24e4208f7ee2748f157368b63287dc903fcf60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:09:10 -0500 Subject: ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groups Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4/balloc.c') diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c index b37b12875582..53c72ad85877 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c @@ -470,9 +470,8 @@ void ext4_add_groupblocks(handle_t *handle, struct super_block *sb, if (sbi->s_log_groups_per_flex) { ext4_group_t flex_group = ext4_flex_group(sbi, block_group); - spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, flex_group)); - sbi->s_flex_groups[flex_group].free_blocks += blocks_freed; - spin_unlock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, flex_group)); + atomic_add(blocks_freed, + &sbi->s_flex_groups[flex_group].free_blocks); } /* * request to reload the buddy with the -- cgit v1.2.3