Don't delay freeing mids when blocked on slow socket write of request

When processing responses, and in particular freeing mids (DeleteMidQEntry),
which is very important since it also frees the associated buffers (cifs_buf_release),
we can block a long time if (writes to) socket is slow due to low memory or networking
issues.

We can block in send (smb request) waiting for memory, and be blocked in processing
responess (which could free memory if we let it) - since they both grab the
server->srv_mutex.

In practice, in the DeleteMidQEntry case - there is no reason we need to
grab the srv_mutex so remove these around DeleteMidQEntry, and it allows
us to free memory faster.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <steve.french@primarydata.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 4c01b3f9abf0..4de3186d8a71 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -697,9 +697,7 @@ cifs_echo_callback(struct mid_q_entry *mid)
 {
 	struct TCP_Server_Info *server = mid->callback_data;
 
-	mutex_lock(&server->srv_mutex);
 	DeleteMidQEntry(mid);
-	mutex_unlock(&server->srv_mutex);
 	add_credits(server, 1, CIFS_ECHO_OP);
 }
 
@@ -1599,9 +1597,7 @@ cifs_readv_callback(struct mid_q_entry *mid)
 	}
 
 	queue_work(cifsiod_wq, &rdata->work);
-	mutex_lock(&server->srv_mutex);
 	DeleteMidQEntry(mid);
-	mutex_unlock(&server->srv_mutex);
 	add_credits(server, 1, 0);
 }
 
@@ -2058,7 +2054,6 @@ cifs_writev_callback(struct mid_q_entry *mid)
 {
 	struct cifs_writedata *wdata = mid->callback_data;
 	struct cifs_tcon *tcon = tlink_tcon(wdata->cfile->tlink);
-	struct TCP_Server_Info *server = tcon->ses->server;
 	unsigned int written;
 	WRITE_RSP *smb = (WRITE_RSP *)mid->resp_buf;
 
@@ -2095,9 +2090,7 @@ cifs_writev_callback(struct mid_q_entry *mid)
 	}
 
 	queue_work(cifsiod_wq, &wdata->work);
-	mutex_lock(&server->srv_mutex);
 	DeleteMidQEntry(mid);
-	mutex_unlock(&server->srv_mutex);
 	add_credits(tcon->ses->server, 1, 0);
 }