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Andrew Morton authored
Truncates can take a very long time. Especially if there is a lot of writeout happening, because truncate must wait on in-progress I/O. And sys_unlink() is performing that truncate while holding the parent directory's i_sem. This basically shuts down new accesses to the entire directory until the synchronous I/O completes. In the testing I've been doing, that directory is /tmp, and this hurts. So change sys_unlink() to perform the actual truncate outside i_sem. When there is a continuous streaming write to the same disk, this patch reduces the time for `make -j4 bzImage' from 370 seconds to 220.
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