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DateSat, 18 Sep 2010 12:12:42 -0700
FromGreg KH <>
Subject[064/129] swap: do not send discards as barriers
2.6.35-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

commit 8f2ae0faa3a119158c4dcfe89926d6fad5f5332c upstream.

The swap code already uses synchronous discards, no need to add I/O
barriers.

This fixes the worst of the terrible slowdown in swap allocation for
hibernation, reported on 2.6.35 by Nigel Cunningham; but does not entirely
eliminate that regression.

[tj@kernel.org: superflous newlines removed]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
mm/swapfile.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -139,8 +139,7 @@ static int discard_swap(struct swap_info
nr_blocks = ((sector_t)se->nr_pages - 1) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);
if (nr_blocks) {
err = blkdev_issue_discard(si->bdev, start_block,
- nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL,
- BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT | BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER);
+ nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT);
if (err)
return err;
cond_resched();
@@ -151,8 +150,7 @@ static int discard_swap(struct swap_info
nr_blocks = (sector_t)se->nr_pages << (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);

err = blkdev_issue_discard(si->bdev, start_block,
- nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL,
- BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT | BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER);
+ nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT);
if (err)
break;

@@ -191,8 +189,7 @@ static void discard_swap_cluster(struct
start_block <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 9;
nr_blocks <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 9;
if (blkdev_issue_discard(si->bdev, start_block,
- nr_blocks, GFP_NOIO, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT |
- BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER))
+ nr_blocks, GFP_NOIO, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT))
break;
}




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