From 65b51a009e29e64c0951f21ea17fdc66bbb0fbd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Mason Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:11:20 -0400 Subject: btrfs_search_slot: reduce lock contention by cowing in two stages A btree block cow has two parts, the first is to allocate a destination block and the second is to copy the old bock over. The first part needs locks in the extent allocation tree, and may need to do IO. This changeset splits that into a separate function that can be called without any tree locks held. btrfs_search_slot is changed to drop its path and start over if it has to COW a contended block. This often means that many writers will pre-alloc a new destination for a the same contended block, but they cache their prealloc for later use on lower levels in the tree. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason --- fs/btrfs/locking.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/btrfs/locking.h') diff --git a/fs/btrfs/locking.h b/fs/btrfs/locking.h index 2dab96d8280e..bc1faef12519 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/locking.h +++ b/fs/btrfs/locking.h @@ -23,4 +23,5 @@ int btrfs_tree_lock(struct extent_buffer *eb); int btrfs_tree_unlock(struct extent_buffer *eb); int btrfs_tree_locked(struct extent_buffer *eb); int btrfs_try_tree_lock(struct extent_buffer *eb); +int btrfs_path_lock_waiting(struct btrfs_path *path, int level); #endif -- cgit v1.2.3