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dm bufio: when done scanning return from __scan immediately 

When __scan frees the required number of buffer entries that the
shrinker requested (nr_to_scan becomes zero) it must return.  Before
this fix the __scan code exited only the inner loop and continued in the
outer loop -- which could result in reduced performance due to extra
buffers being freed (e.g. unnecessarily evicted thinp metadata needing
to be synchronously re-read into bufio's cache).

Also, move dm_bufio_cond_resched to __scan's inner loop, so that
iterating the bufio client's lru lists doesn't result in scheduling
latency.

Reported-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2+
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Mikulas Patocka 2014-10-01 13:29:48 -04:00 committed by Mike Snitzer
parent eb76faf53b
commit 0e825862f3
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -1473,9 +1473,9 @@ static long __scan(struct dm_bufio_client *c, unsigned long nr_to_scan,
list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(b, tmp, &c->lru[l], lru_list) {
freed += __cleanup_old_buffer(b, gfp_mask, 0);
if (!--nr_to_scan)
break;
return freed;
dm_bufio_cond_resched();
}
dm_bufio_cond_resched();
}
return freed;
}