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Commit 0e749e54 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Linus Torvalds
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dax: increase granularity of dax_clear_blocks() operations



dax_clear_blocks is currently performing a cond_resched() after every
PAGE_SIZE memset.  We need not check so frequently, for example md-raid
only calls cond_resched() at stripe granularity.  Also, in preparation
for introducing a dax_map_atomic() operation that temporarily pins a dax
mapping move the call to cond_resched() to the outer loop.

The worst case latency between calls to cond_resched() after this change
is 500us the average latency is 133us.  This is up from a 10us max and
4us average.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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