gfs2: don't lock sd_ail_lock in gfs2_releasepage
Patch 380f7c65 changed gfs2_releasepage so that it held the sd_ail_lock spin_lock for most of its processing. It did this for some mysterious undocumented bug somewhere in the evict code path. But in the nine years since, evict has been reworked and fixed many times, and so have the transactions and ail list. I can't see a reason to hold the sd_ail_lock unless it's protecting the actual ail lists hung off the transactions. Therefore, this patch removes the locking to increase speed and efficiency, and to further help us rework the log flush code to be more concurrent with transactions. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
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