On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:44:39PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> log->l_tail_lsn is currently protected by the log grant lock. The
> lock is only needed for serialising readers against writers, so we
> don't really need the lock if we make the l_tail_lsn variable an
> atomic. Converting the l_tail_lsn variable to an atomic64_t means we
> can start to peel back the grant lock from various operations.
>
> Also, provide functions to safely crack an atomic LSN variable into
> it's component pieces and to recombined the components into an
> atomic variable. Use them where appropriate.
>
> This also removes the need for explicitly holding a spinlock to read
> the l_tail_lsn on 32 bit platforms.
I know I suggested this, but I think the atomic read of l_tail_lsn
in xlog_space_left might be problemetic for the call from
xlog_grant_push_ail, where we read it twice now. Maybe split
xlog_space_left into a __xlog_space_left that gets the already cracked
values, and xlog_space_left as a wrapper around it?
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