Re: [PATCH] RFC: dm: avoid the mutex lock in dm_bufio_shrink_count()

From: David Rientjes
Date: Mon Nov 28 2016 - 19:56:37 EST


On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

> From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> dm-bufio: don't take the lock in dm_bufio_shrink_count
>
> dm_bufio_shrink_count is called from do_shrink_slab to find out how many
> freeable objects are there. The reported value doesn't have to be precise,
> so we don't need to take the dm-bufio lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>