Re: [SCSI] sr: sr_mutex ,multi-drive performance is bad

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On 10/28/2013 08:30 AM, yang jun wrote:
> Dear Mr.Axboe,
> 
> The latest kernel sr_module still uses single mutex,it will serialise
> all sr ioctls. Otto Meta had mentioned this on Jan 1st, 2013 . Some
> record tools such as growisofs use SG_IO to write data to disc, so if
> there are multiple cdroms being recorded at the same time,it will be
> very slowly.
> 
> I saw sd_module before,it had removed BKL and made "openers" atomic_t
> in scsi_disk. Shall we do the same thing to sr_module? That is, to
> remove sr_mutex and make "use_count" atomic_t in cdrom_device_info.

The same conversion that happened to sd could apply to sr just as easily.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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