Re: [PATCH 1/2] jbd2: don't call get_bh() before calling __jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint()

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On Tue 02-09-14 18:46:39, Ted Tso wrote:
> The __jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint() doesn't require an elevated
> b_count; indeed, until the jh structure gets released by the call to
> jbd2_journal_put_journal_head(), the bh's b_count is elevated by
> virtue of the existence of the jh structure.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
  Looks good so you can add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

  Just we can do a bit more as I mentioned in my other email:

> @@ -359,8 +354,9 @@ restart2:
>  		 * know that it has been written out and so we can
>  		 * drop it from the list
>  		 */
> -		done = __jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint(jh);
>  		__brelse(bh);
  Here we don't need to grab bh reference unless we are going to call
wait_on_buffer(). Which moves get_bh / __brelse out of fast path.

> +		if (__jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint(jh))
> +			break;
>  	}
>  out:
>  	spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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