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authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>2013-07-08 16:01:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-09 10:33:28 -0700
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ipc/sem.c: replace shared sem_otime with per-semaphore value
sem_otime contains the time of the last semaphore operation that completed successfully. Every operation updates this value, thus access from multiple cpus can cause thrashing. Therefore the patch replaces the variable with a per-semaphore variable. The per-array sem_otime is only calculated when required. No performance improvement on a single-socket i3 - only important for larger systems. Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/sem.h b/include/linux/sem.h
index 55e17f68d256..976ce3a19f1b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sem.h
+++ b/include/linux/sem.h
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ struct task_struct;
struct sem_array {
struct kern_ipc_perm ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp
sem_perm; /* permissions .. see ipc.h */
- time_t sem_otime; /* last semop time */
time_t sem_ctime; /* last change time */
struct sem *sem_base; /* ptr to first semaphore in array */
struct list_head pending_alter; /* pending operations */