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    xfs: use the CIL space used counter for emptiness checks · 88591e7f
    Dave Chinner authored
    In the next patches we are going to make the CIL list itself
    per-cpu, and so we cannot use list_empty() to check is the list is
    empty. Replace the list_empty() checks with a flag in the CIL to
    indicate we have committed at least one transaction to the CIL and
    hence the CIL is not empty.
    
    We need this flag to be an atomic so that we can clear it without
    holding any locks in the commit fast path, but we also need to be
    careful to avoid atomic operations in the fast path. Hence we use
    the fact that test_bit() is not an atomic op to first check if the
    flag is set and then run the atomic test_and_clear_bit() operation
    to clear it and steal the initial unit reservation for the CIL
    context checkpoint.
    
    When we are switching to a new context in a push, we place the
    setting of the XLOG_CIL_EMPTY flag under the xc_push_lock. THis
    allows all the other places that need to check whether the CIL is
    empty to use test_bit() and still be serialised correctly with the
    CIL context swaps that set the bit.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
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