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Whenever we write an iclog, we call xlog_assign_tail_lsn() to update the current tail before we write it into the iclog header. This means we have to take the AIL lock on every iclog write just to check if the tail of the log has moved. This doesn't avoid races with log tail updates - the log tail could move immediately after we assign the tail to the iclog header and hence by the time the iclog reaches stable storage the tail LSN has moved forward in memory. Hence the log tail LSN in the iclog header is really just a point in time snapshot of the current state of the AIL. With this in mind, if we simply update the in memory log->l_tail_lsn every time it changes in the AIL, there is no need to update the in memory value when we are writing it into an iclog - it will already be up-to-date in memory and checking the AIL again will not change this. Hence xlog_state_release_iclog() does not need to check the AIL to update the tail lsn and can just sample it directly without needing to take the AIL lock. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.