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Subject[PATCH] backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu
Hi Jens

Please would you consider taking this into the block tree? It seems to
speed up device deletion enormously.

Mikulas

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backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu

synchronize_rcu sleeps several timer ticks. synchronize_rcu_expedited is
much faster.

With 100Hz timer frequency, when we remove 10000 block devices with
"dmsetup remove_all" command, it takes 27 minutes. With this patch,
removing 10000 block devices takes only 15 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

---
mm/backing-dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-3.0-rc7-fast/mm/backing-dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.0-rc7-fast.orig/mm/backing-dev.c 2011-07-19 18:01:00.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.0-rc7-fast/mm/backing-dev.c 2011-07-19 18:01:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static void bdi_remove_from_list(struct
list_del_rcu(&bdi->bdi_list);
spin_unlock_bh(&bdi_lock);

- synchronize_rcu();
+ synchronize_rcu_expedited();
}

int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,

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