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authorZach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>2005-11-13 16:07:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-13 18:14:16 -0800
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[PATCH] aio: remove kioctx from mm_struct
Sync iocbs have a life cycle that don't need a kioctx. Their retrying, if any, is done in the context of their owner who has allocated them on the stack. The sole user of a sync iocb's ctx reference was aio_complete() checking for an elevated iocb ref count that could never happen. No path which grabs an iocb ref has access to sync iocbs. If we were to implement sync iocb cancelation it would be done by the owner of the iocb using its on-stack reference. Removing this chunk from aio_complete allows us to remove the entire kioctx instance from mm_struct, reducing its size by a third. On a i386 testing box the slab size went from 768 to 504 bytes and from 5 to 8 per page. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/aio.c27
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 20bb919eb195..e7cd40b626b7 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -937,28 +937,19 @@ int fastcall aio_complete(struct kiocb *iocb, long res, long res2)
unsigned long tail;
int ret;
- /* Special case handling for sync iocbs: events go directly
- * into the iocb for fast handling. Note that this will not
- * work if we allow sync kiocbs to be cancelled. in which
- * case the usage count checks will have to move under ctx_lock
- * for all cases.
+ /*
+ * Special case handling for sync iocbs:
+ * - events go directly into the iocb for fast handling
+ * - the sync task with the iocb in its stack holds the single iocb
+ * ref, no other paths have a way to get another ref
+ * - the sync task helpfully left a reference to itself in the iocb
*/
if (is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
- int ret;
-
+ BUG_ON(iocb->ki_users != 1);
iocb->ki_user_data = res;
- if (iocb->ki_users == 1) {
- iocb->ki_users = 0;
- ret = 1;
- } else {
- spin_lock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
- iocb->ki_users--;
- ret = (0 == iocb->ki_users);
- spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->ctx_lock);
- }
- /* sync iocbs put the task here for us */
+ iocb->ki_users = 0;
wake_up_process(iocb->ki_obj.tsk);
- return ret;
+ return 1;
}
info = &ctx->ring_info;