md: bitmap: improve bitmap maintenance code.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Mon, 25 May 2009 23:41:17 +0000 (09:41 +1000)
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Mon, 25 May 2009 23:41:17 +0000 (09:41 +1000)
commitbe512691036cc989c11d0f418187efbbf14468e6
tree557b303a058fc3effdfc15a5cc08867fb0ee6889
parent2b69c83924396ad1eda36fdd267c9d2f360f5555
md: bitmap: improve bitmap maintenance code.

The code for checking which bits in the bitmap can be cleared
has 2 problems:
 1/ it repeatedly takes and drops a spinlock, where it would make
    more sense to just hold on to it most of the time.
 2/ it doesn't make use of some opportunities to skip large sections
    of the bitmap

This patch fixes those.  It will only affect CPU consumption, not
correctness.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
drivers/md/bitmap.c