Don't delay freeing mids when blocked on slow socket write of request
When processing responses, and in particular freeing mids (DeleteMidQEntry), which is very important since it also frees the associated buffers (cifs_buf_release), we can block a long time if (writes to) socket is slow due to low memory or networking issues. We can block in send (smb request) waiting for memory, and be blocked in processing responess (which could free memory if we let it) - since they both grab the server->srv_mutex. In practice, in the DeleteMidQEntry case - there is no reason we need to grab the srv_mutex so remove these around DeleteMidQEntry, and it allows us to free memory faster. Signed-off-by: Steve French <steve.french@primarydata.com> Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
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