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zram: introduce zram->tb_lock
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Thu, 30 Jan 2014 23:46:03 +0000 (15:46 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:56:55 +0000 (16:56 -0800)
commit92967471b67163bb1654e9b7fe99449ab70a4aaa
tree440e10b86af31f9752585f2472a382d0b36611d4
parentdeb0bdeb2f3d6b81d37fc778316dae46b6daab56
zram: introduce zram->tb_lock

Currently, the zram table is protected by zram->lock but it's rather
coarse-grained lock and it makes hard for scalibility.

Let's use own rwlock instead of depending on zram->lock.  This patch
adds new locking so obviously, it would make slow but this patch is just
prepartion for removing coarse-grained rw_semaphore(ie, zram->lock)
which is hurdle about zram scalability.

Final patch in this patchset series will remove the lock from read-path
and change rw_semaphore with mutex in write path.  With bonus, we could
drop pending slot free mess in next patch.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h