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Nikolay Borisov authored
This patch removes all haphazard code implementing nocow writers exclusion from pending snapshot creation and switches to using the drew lock to ensure this invariant still holds. 'Readers' are snapshot creators from create_snapshot and 'writers' are nocow writers from buffered write path or btrfs_setsize. This locking scheme allows for multiple snapshots to happen while any nocow writers are blocked, since writes to page cache in the nocow path will make snapshots inconsistent. So for performance reasons we'd like to have the ability to run multiple concurrent snapshots and also favors readers in this case. And in case there aren't pending snapshots (which will be the majority of the cases) we rely on the percpu's writers counter to avoid cacheline contention. The main gain from using the drew lock is it's now a lot easier to reason about the guarantees of the locking scheme and whether there is some silent breakage lurking. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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