cifs: avoid use of global locks for high contention data
During analysis of multichannel perf, it was seen that the global locks cifs_tcp_ses_lock and GlobalMid_Lock, which were shared between various data structures were causing a lot of contention points. With this change, we're breaking down the use of these locks by introducing new locks at more granular levels. i.e. server->srv_lock, ses->ses_lock and tcon->tc_lock to protect the unprotected fields of server, session and tcon structs; and server->mid_lock to protect mid related lists and entries at server level. Signed-off-by:Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by:
Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
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