[PATCH] page_uptodate locking scalability

Use a bit spin lock in the first buffer of the page to synchronise asynch
IO buffer completions, instead of the global page_uptodate_lock, which is
showing some scalabilty problems.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

include/linux/buffer_head.h

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ enum bh_state_bits {
 	BH_Dirty,	/* Is dirty */
 	BH_Lock,	/* Is locked */
 	BH_Req,		/* Has been submitted for I/O */
+	BH_Uptodate_Lock,/* Used by the first bh in a page, to serialise
+			  * IO completion of other buffers in the page
+			  */
 
 	BH_Mapped,	/* Has a disk mapping */
 	BH_New,		/* Disk mapping was newly created by get_block */