From 09eb47a7c52ad535aafca889e0b936c445c375ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 14:21:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: reduce number of contentions in search_by_key() search_by_key() is a central function in reiserfs which searches the patch in the fs tree from the root to a node given its key. It is the function that is most requesting the write lock because it's a path very often used. Also we forget to release the lock while reading the next tree node, making us holding the lock in a wasteful way. Then we release the lock while reading the current node and its childs, all-in-one. It should be safe because we have a reference to these blocks and even if we read a block that will be concurrently changed, we have an fs_changed check later that will make us retry the path from the root. [ Impact: release the write lock while unused in a hot path ] Cc: Jeff Mahoney Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alexander Beregalov Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- Reading git-format-patch failed