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swap: do not send discards as barriers
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The swap code already uses synchronous discards, no need to add I/O
barriers.

This fixes the worst of the terrible slowdown in swap allocation for
hibernation, reported on 2.6.35 by Nigel Cunningham; but does not entirely
eliminate that regression.

[tj@kernel.org: superflous newlines removed]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored and torvalds committed Sep 10, 2010
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9 changes: 3 additions & 6 deletions mm/swapfile.c
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Expand Up @@ -139,8 +139,7 @@ static int discard_swap(struct swap_info_struct *si)
nr_blocks = ((sector_t)se->nr_pages - 1) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);
if (nr_blocks) {
err = blkdev_issue_discard(si->bdev, start_block,
nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL,
BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT | BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER);
nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT);
if (err)
return err;
cond_resched();
Expand All @@ -151,8 +150,7 @@ static int discard_swap(struct swap_info_struct *si)
nr_blocks = (sector_t)se->nr_pages << (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);

err = blkdev_issue_discard(si->bdev, start_block,
nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL,
BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT | BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER);
nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT);
if (err)
break;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -191,8 +189,7 @@ static void discard_swap_cluster(struct swap_info_struct *si,
start_block <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 9;
nr_blocks <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 9;
if (blkdev_issue_discard(si->bdev, start_block,
nr_blocks, GFP_NOIO, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT |
BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER))
nr_blocks, GFP_NOIO, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT))
break;
}

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