ext4: drop s_mb_bal_lock and convert protected fields to atomic
s_mb_buddies_generated gets used later in this patch series to determine if the cr 0 and cr 1 optimziations should be performed or not. Currently, s_mb_buddies_generated is protected under a spin_lock. In the allocation path, it is better if we don't depend on the lock and instead read the value atomically. In order to do that, we drop s_bal_lock altogether and we convert the only two protected fields by it s_mb_buddies_generated and s_mb_generation_time to atomic type. Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401172129.189766-2-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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