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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-01-28 23:58:26 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2008-01-28 23:58:26 -0500
commit0e855ac8b103ef579052936b59fe7c599ac422a4 (patch)
treeec29f82e1d7bb1987dcadc00497daf69d6955483 /fs/ext4/file.c
parentc278bfecebfb1ed67c326ef472660878baa745cd (diff)
ext4: Convert truncate_mutex to read write semaphore.
We are currently taking the truncate_mutex for every read. This would have performance impact on large CPU configuration. Convert the lock to read write semaphore and take read lock when we are trying to read the file. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/file.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/file.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index a6b2aa14626..ac35ec58db5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ static int ext4_release_file (struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) &&
(atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) == 1))
{
- mutex_lock(&EXT4_I(inode)->truncate_mutex);
+ down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
ext4_discard_reservation(inode);
- mutex_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->truncate_mutex);
+ up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
}
if (is_dx(inode) && filp->private_data)
ext4_htree_free_dir_info(filp->private_data);