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swap: do not send discards as barriers
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Thu, 9 Sep 2010 23:38:10 +0000 (16:38 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:57:25 +0000 (18:57 -0700)
commitaf42b6571e3c0b619b4cc067bace4ae17b0f6d57
tree720272512fd0dfd1d865d2dc64b30fed811f2d13
parentcef5a00ba994367db6600b5d6af62a4d4946e84f
swap: do not send discards as barriers

The swap code already uses synchronous discards, no need to add I/O
barriers.

This fixes the worst of the terrible slowdown in swap allocation for
hibernation, reported on 2.6.35 by Nigel Cunningham; but does not entirely
eliminate that regression.

[tj@kernel.org: superflous newlines removed]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/swapfile.c