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ext4: yield during large unlinks

Message ID 1373665514-709-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu
State Accepted, archived
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Theodore Ts'o July 12, 2013, 9:45 p.m. UTC 
During large unlink operations on files with extents, we can use a lot
of CPU time.  This adds a cond_resched() call when starting to examine
the next level of a multi-level extent tree.  Multi-level extent trees
are rare in the first place, and this should rarely be executed.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
---
 fs/ext4/extents.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 3d99b18..cc4731fd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -2861,6 +2861,9 @@  again:
 				err = PTR_ERR(bh);
 				break;
 			}
+			/* Yield here to deal with large extent trees. Should be
+			 * a no-op if we did IO for the above sb_bread. */
+			cond_resched();
 			if (WARN_ON(i + 1 > depth)) {
 				err = -EIO;
 				break;