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    jbd2: avoid long hold times of j_state_lock while committing a transaction · 96f1e097
    Jan Kara authored
    We can hold j_state_lock for writing at the beginning of
    jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() for a rather long time (reportedly for
    30 ms) due cleaning revoke bits of all revoked buffers under it. The
    handling of revoke tables as well as cleaning of t_reserved_list, and
    checkpoint lists does not need j_state_lock for anything. It is only
    needed to prevent new handles from joining the transaction. Generally
    T_LOCKED transaction state prevents new handles from joining the
    transaction - except for reserved handles which have to allowed to join
    while we wait for other handles to complete.
    
    To prevent reserved handles from joining the transaction while cleaning
    up lists, add new transaction state T_SWITCH and watch for it when
    starting reserved handles. With this we can just drop the lock for
    operations that don't need it.
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatar"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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