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Commit de1892b8 authored by Steve French's avatar Steve French
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Don't delay freeing mids when blocked on slow socket write of request



When processing responses, and in particular freeing mids (DeleteMidQEntry),
which is very important since it also frees the associated buffers (cifs_buf_release),
we can block a long time if (writes to) socket is slow due to low memory or networking
issues.

We can block in send (smb request) waiting for memory, and be blocked in processing
responess (which could free memory if we let it) - since they both grab the
server->srv_mutex.

In practice, in the DeleteMidQEntry case - there is no reason we need to
grab the srv_mutex so remove these around DeleteMidQEntry, and it allows
us to free memory faster.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <steve.french@primarydata.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
parent 560d3889
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