Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2016-11-29

Re: [PATCH] RFC: dm: avoid the mutex lock in dm_bufio_shrink_count()

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: 2016-11-29 00:56:34
Also in: dm-devel, lkml

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

dm-bufio: don't take the lock in dm_bufio_shrink_count

dm_bufio_shrink_count is called from do_shrink_slab to find out how many
freeable objects are there. The reported value doesn't have to be precise,
so we don't need to take the dm-bufio lock.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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