The function splices i_completed_io_list to its private list first. From that moment on we don't need any lock for working with io_end structures because all io_end structure on the list are only our own. So we can remove the other two lists in the function and free io_end immediately after we are done with it. CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/page-io.c | 18 +----------------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c index a029017..3fb385c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c +++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c @@ -160,14 +160,11 @@ void ext4_add_complete_io(ext4_io_end_t *io_end) static int ext4_do_flush_completed_IO(struct inode *inode) { ext4_io_end_t *io; - struct list_head unwritten, complete, to_free; + struct list_head unwritten; unsigned long flags; struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode); int err, ret = 0; - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&complete); - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&to_free); - spin_lock_irqsave(&ei->i_completed_io_lock, flags); dump_completed_IO(inode); list_replace_init(&ei->i_completed_io_list, &unwritten); @@ -181,20 +178,7 @@ static int ext4_do_flush_completed_IO(struct inode *inode) err = ext4_end_io(io); if (unlikely(!ret && err)) ret = err; - - list_add_tail(&io->list, &complete); - } - spin_lock_irqsave(&ei->i_completed_io_lock, flags); - while (!list_empty(&complete)) { - io = list_entry(complete.next, ext4_io_end_t, list); io->flag &= ~EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN; - list_move(&io->list, &to_free); - } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ei->i_completed_io_lock, flags); - - while (!list_empty(&to_free)) { - io = list_entry(to_free.next, ext4_io_end_t, list); - list_del_init(&io->list); ext4_free_io_end(io); } return ret; -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html