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block: add comment on why we save and disable interrupts in flush_plug_list()

It's done at the top to avoid doing it for every queue we unplug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Jens Axboe 14 years ago
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block/blk-core.c

@@ -2696,6 +2696,11 @@ static void flush_plug_list(struct blk_plug *plug)
 
 	q = NULL;
 	depth = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * Save and disable interrupts here, to avoid doing it for every
+	 * queue lock we have to take.
+	 */
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	while (!list_empty(&list)) {
 		rq = list_entry_rq(list.next);