kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: reduce number of contentions in search_by_key()
search_by_key() is a central function in reiserfs which searches
the patch in the fs tree from the root to a node given its key.
It is the function that is most requesting the write lock
because it's a path very often used.
Also we forget to release the lock while reading the next tree node,
making us holding the lock in a wasteful way.
Then we release the lock while reading the current node and its childs,
all-in-one. It should be safe because we have a reference to these
blocks and even if we read a block that will be concurrently changed,
we have an fs_changed check later that will make us retry the path from
the root.
[ Impact: release the write lock while unused in a hot path ]
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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