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writeback: improve scalability of bdi writeback work queues

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If you're going to do an atomic RMW on each list entry, there's not much
point in all the RCU complexities of the list walking. This is only going
to help the multi-thread case I guess, but it doesn't hurt to do now.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Nick Piggin 2009-09-15 21:34:12 +02:00 committed by Jens Axboe
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commit 77fad5e625
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@ -772,8 +772,9 @@ static struct bdi_work *get_next_work_item(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(work, &bdi->work_list, list) {
if (!test_and_clear_bit(wb->nr, &work->seen))
if (!test_bit(wb->nr, &work->seen))
continue;
clear_bit(wb->nr, &work->seen);
ret = work;
break;