From 2a4419b5b2a77f3f4537c14f7ad7df95770655dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:37:33 +1000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/fs_struct.h | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/fs_struct.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs_struct.h b/include/linux/fs_struct.h index eca3d5202138..a42b5bf02f8b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs_struct.h +++ b/include/linux/fs_struct.h @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ struct fs_struct { int users; - rwlock_t lock; + spinlock_t lock; int umask; int in_exec; struct path root, pwd; @@ -23,29 +23,29 @@ extern int unshare_fs_struct(void); static inline void get_fs_root(struct fs_struct *fs, struct path *root) { - read_lock(&fs->lock); + spin_lock(&fs->lock); *root = fs->root; path_get(root); - read_unlock(&fs->lock); + spin_unlock(&fs->lock); } static inline void get_fs_pwd(struct fs_struct *fs, struct path *pwd) { - read_lock(&fs->lock); + spin_lock(&fs->lock); *pwd = fs->pwd; path_get(pwd); - read_unlock(&fs->lock); + spin_unlock(&fs->lock); } static inline void get_fs_root_and_pwd(struct fs_struct *fs, struct path *root, struct path *pwd) { - read_lock(&fs->lock); + spin_lock(&fs->lock); *root = fs->root; path_get(root); *pwd = fs->pwd; path_get(pwd); - read_unlock(&fs->lock); + spin_unlock(&fs->lock); } #endif /* _LINUX_FS_STRUCT_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3