commit ccfc7bf1f0 points out bios from conf->bio_end_io_list also contribute to conf->nr_queued counter, that's right. But the fix could be improved. The original fix replaces list_add() by a while() loop to iterate every bio on conf->bio_end_io_list, and decrease conf->nr_queued. If we look at the code several lines after, we may find there is another while() loop to iterate every node from tmp list which contains the original content of conf->bio_end_io_list. Yes, we can decrease conf->nr_queued here, then we can avoid the previous extra while() loop, which consumes more CPU cycles and hold a spin lock longer time when conf->bio_end_io_list is not tiny. This patch changes to decrease conf->nr_queued in loop of while(!list_empty(&tmp)){}, it avoids an extra loop execution, and avoids holding conf->device_lock for too long time. Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid1.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c index 29e2df5..ea98a73 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c @@ -2388,16 +2388,17 @@ static void raid1d(struct md_thread *thread) LIST_HEAD(tmp); spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags); if (!test_bit(MD_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->flags)) { - while (!list_empty(&conf->bio_end_io_list)) { - list_move(conf->bio_end_io_list.prev, &tmp); - conf->nr_queued--; - } + list_add(&tmp, &conf->bio_end_io_list); + list_del_init(&conf->bio_end_io_list); } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags); while (!list_empty(&tmp)) { r1_bio = list_first_entry(&tmp, struct r1bio, retry_list); list_del(&r1_bio->retry_list); + spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags); + conf->nr_queued--; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags); if (mddev->degraded) set_bit(R1BIO_Degraded, &r1_bio->state); if (test_bit(R1BIO_WriteError, &r1_bio->state)) -- 2.6.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html