UBIFS: slightly optimize write-buffer timer usage

This patch adds the following minor optimization:

1. If write-buffer does not use the timer, indicate it with the
   wbuf->no_timer variable, instead of using the wbuf->softlimit
   variable. This is better because wbuf->softlimit is of ktime_t
   type, and the ktime_to_ns function contains 64-bit multiplication.

2. Do not call the 'hrtimer_cancel()' function for write-buffers
   which do not use timers.

3. Do not cancel the timer in 'ubifs_put_super()' because the
   synchronization function does this.

This patch also removes a confusing comment.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/io.c b/fs/ubifs/io.c
index 2ef689a9a363..9fcf6c38c1bc 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/io.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/io.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static void new_wbuf_timer_nolock(struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf)
 {
         ubifs_assert(!hrtimer_active(&wbuf->timer));
 
-        if (!ktime_to_ns(wbuf->softlimit))
+        if (wbuf->no_timer)
                 return;
         dbg_io("set timer for jhead %d, %llu-%llu millisecs", wbuf->jhead,
                ktime_to_ns(wbuf->softlimit)/USEC_PER_SEC,
@@ -327,11 +327,8 @@ static void new_wbuf_timer_nolock(struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf)
  */
 static void cancel_wbuf_timer_nolock(struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf)
 {
-        /*
-         * If the syncer is waiting for the lock (from the background thread's
-         * context) and another task is changing write-buffer then the syncing
-         * should be canceled.
-         */
+        if (wbuf->no_timer)
+                return;
         wbuf->need_sync = 0;
         hrtimer_cancel(&wbuf->timer);
 }
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 79fad43f3c57..5bb272c56a9b 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ static int alloc_wbufs(struct ubifs_info *c)
          * does not need to be synchronized by timer.
          */
         c->jheads[GCHD].wbuf.dtype = UBI_LONGTERM;
-        c->jheads[GCHD].wbuf.softlimit = ktime_set(0, 0);
+        c->jheads[GCHD].wbuf.no_timer = 1;
 
         return 0;
 }
@@ -1754,10 +1754,8 @@ static void ubifs_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 
                 /* Synchronize write-buffers */
                 if (c->jheads)
-                        for (i = 0; i < c->jhead_cnt; i++) {
+                        for (i = 0; i < c->jhead_cnt; i++)
                                 ubifs_wbuf_sync(&c->jheads[i].wbuf);
-                                hrtimer_cancel(&c->jheads[i].wbuf.timer);
-                        }
 
                 /*
                  * On fatal errors c->ro_media is set to 1, in which case we do
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
index 1bf01d820066..97bc9d09d54b 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
+++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
@@ -654,7 +654,8 @@ typedef int (*ubifs_lpt_scan_callback)(struct ubifs_info *c,
  * @delta: hard and soft timeouts delta (the timer expire inteval is @softlimit
  *         and @softlimit + @delta)
  * @timer: write-buffer timer
- * @need_sync: it is set if its timer expired and needs sync
+ * @no_timer: non-zero if this write-buffer does not timer
+ * @need_sync: non-zero if its timer expired and needs sync
  * @next_ino: points to the next position of the following inode number
  * @inodes: stores the inode numbers of the nodes which are in wbuf
  *
@@ -683,7 +684,8 @@ struct ubifs_wbuf {
         ktime_t softlimit;
         unsigned long long delta;
         struct hrtimer timer;
-        int need_sync;
+        unsigned int no_timer:1;
+        unsigned int need_sync:1;
         int next_ino;
         ino_t *inodes;
 };