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    [PATCH] cfq-iosched: kill cfq_exit_lock · fc46379d
    Jens Axboe authored
    cfq_exit_lock is protecting two things now:
    
    - The per-ioc rbtree of cfq_io_contexts
    
    - The per-cfqd linked list of cfq_io_contexts
    
    The per-cfqd linked list can be protected by the queue lock, as it is (by
    definition) per cfqd as the queue lock is.
    
    The per-ioc rbtree is mainly used and updated by the process itself only.
    The only outside use is the io priority changing. If we move the
    priority changing to not browsing the rbtree, we can remove any locking
    from the rbtree updates and lookup completely. Let the sys_ioprio syscall
    just mark processes as having the iopriority changed and lazily update
    the private cfq io contexts the next time io is queued, and we can
    remove this locking as well.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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