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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2015-03-04 12:37:22 -0500
committerJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>2015-08-17 18:39:46 -0400
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inode: convert inode_sb_list_lock to per-sb
The process of reducing contention on per-superblock inode lists starts with moving the locking to match the per-superblock inode list. This takes the global lock out of the picture and reduces the contention problems to within a single filesystem. This doesn't get rid of contention as the locks still have global CPU scope, but it does isolate operations on different superblocks form each other. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 4d5af583ab03..ee1209c54eb1 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ extern int vfs_open(const struct path *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
/*
* inode.c
*/
-extern spinlock_t inode_sb_list_lock;
extern long prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_control *sc);
extern void inode_add_lru(struct inode *inode);