tree fd923aa42a5304182e8a8c64ca5d130f9afef286
parent 49e4c70e52a2bc2090e5a4e003e2888af21d6a2b
author Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> 1324238409 +0000
committer Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> 1326834405 -0600

xfs: replace i_flock with a sleeping bitlock

We almost never block on i_flock, the exception is synchronous inode
flushing.  Instead of bloating the inode with a 16/24-byte completion
that we abuse as a semaphore just implement it as a bitlock that uses
a bit waitqueue for the rare sleeping path.  This primarily is a
tradeoff between a much smaller inode and a faster non-blocking
path vs faster wakeups, and we are much better off with the former.

A small downside is that we will lose lockdep checking for i_flock, but
given that it's always taken inside the ilock that should be acceptable.

Note that for example the inode writeback locking is implemented in a
very similar way.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>