From 05937baae9fc27b64bcd4378da7d2b14edf7931c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 16:15:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] __block_write_full_page speedup

Remove all those get_bh()'s and put_bh()'s by extending lock_page() to cover
the troublesome regions.

(get_bh() and put_bh() happen every time whereas contention on a page's lock
in there happens basically never).

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 fs/buffer.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index bc75f2e7b274..6f2c3303a443 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1826,7 +1826,6 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
 		}
 		if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) {
 			mark_buffer_async_write(bh);
-			get_bh(bh);
 			last_bh = bh;
 		} else {
 			unlock_buffer(bh);
@@ -1839,20 +1838,19 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
 	 */
 	BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
 	set_page_writeback(page);
-	unlock_page(page);
 
 	do {
 		struct buffer_head *next = bh->b_this_page;
 		if (buffer_async_write(bh)) {
 			submit_bh(WRITE, bh);
 			nr_underway++;
-			put_bh(bh);
 			if (bh == last_bh)
 				break;
 		}
 		bh = next;
 	} while (bh != head);
 	bh = head;
+	unlock_page(page);
 
 	err = 0;
 done:
@@ -1894,7 +1892,6 @@ recover:
 		if (buffer_mapped(bh) && buffer_dirty(bh)) {
 			lock_buffer(bh);
 			mark_buffer_async_write(bh);
-			get_bh(bh);
 			last_bh = bh;
 		} else {
 			/*
@@ -1914,7 +1911,6 @@ recover:
 			clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
 			submit_bh(WRITE, bh);
 			nr_underway++;
-			put_bh(bh);
 			if (bh == last_bh)
 				break;
 		}
-- 
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