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Even if we have no waiters on any of the sbitmap_queue wait states, we still have to loop every entry to check. We do this for every IO, so the cost adds up. Shift a bit of the cost to the slow path, when we actually have waiters. Wrap prepare_to_wait_exclusive() and finish_wait(), so we can maintain an internal count of how many are currently active. Then we can simply check this count in sbq_wake_ptr() and not have to loop if we don't have any sleepers. Convert the two users of sbitmap with waiting, blk-mq-tag and iSCSI. Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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