From: Jens Axboe Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:59:55 +0000 (+0200) Subject: block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt X-Git-Tag: v2.6.39-rc4~3^2~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99e22598e9a8e0a996d69c8c0f6b7027cb57720a;p=pandora-kernel.git block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt If we know we are going to punt to kblockd, we can drop the queue lock before calling into __blk_run_queue() since it only does a safe bit test and a workqueue call. Since kblockd needs to grab this very lock as one of the first things it does, it's a good optimization to drop the lock before waking kblockd. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Reading git-diff-tree failed