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author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> | 2010-08-18 04:37:33 +1000 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2010-08-18 08:35:46 -0400 |
commit | 2a4419b5b2a77f3f4537c14f7ad7df95770655dd (patch) | |
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fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and
pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path
typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small.
Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the
dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a
real parallelism increase.
Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical
path lookup fastpath.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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