dlm: drop dlm_scand kthread and use timers
Currently the scand kthread acts like a garbage collection for expired rsbs on toss list, to clean them up after a certain timeout. It triggers every couple of seconds and iterates over the toss list while holding ls_rsbtbl_lock for the whole hash bucket iteration. To reduce the amount of time holding ls_rsbtbl_lock, we now handle the disposal of expired rsbs using a per-lockspace timer that expires for the earliest tossed rsb on the lockspace toss queue. This toss queue is ordered according to the rsb res_toss_time with the earliest tossed rsb as the first entry. The toss timer will only trylock() necessary locks, since it is low priority garbage collection, and will rearm the timer if trylock() fails. If the timer function does not find any expired rsb's, it rearms the timer with the next earliest expired rsb. Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
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