[PATCH] page_uptodate locking scalability
Use a bit spin lock in the first buffer of the page to synchronise asynch
IO buffer completions, instead of the global page_uptodate_lock, which is
showing some scalabilty problems.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 802c91e..9082849 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
BH_Dirty, /* Is dirty */
BH_Lock, /* Is locked */
BH_Req, /* Has been submitted for I/O */
+ BH_Uptodate_Lock,/* Used by the first bh in a page, to serialise
+ * IO completion of other buffers in the page
+ */
BH_Mapped, /* Has a disk mapping */
BH_New, /* Disk mapping was newly created by get_block */