[PATCH] EXT2: Remove superblock lock contention in ext2_statfs

Fix a performance degradation introduced in 2.6.17.  (30% degradation
running dbench with 16 threads)

Commit 21730eed11de42f22afcbd43f450a1872a0b5ea1, which claims to make
EXT2_DEBUG work again, moves the taking of the kernel lock out of
debug-only code in ext2_count_free_inodes and ext2_count_free_blocks and
into ext2_statfs.

The same problem was fixed in ext3 by removing the lock completely (commit
5b11687924e40790deb0d5f959247ade82196665)

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext2/ialloc.c b/fs/ext2/ialloc.c
index de85c61c58c5..695f69ccf908 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/ialloc.c
@@ -637,7 +637,6 @@ fail:
         return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
 
-/* Superblock must be locked */
 unsigned long ext2_count_free_inodes (struct super_block * sb)
 {
         struct ext2_group_desc *desc;