fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:33 +0000 (04:37 +1000)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:35:46 +0000 (08:35 -0400)
commit2a4419b5b2a77f3f4537c14f7ad7df95770655dd
treead66519a92b995920ecada788e4a08e265747545
parent44672e4fbd40e2dda8bbce7d0f71d24dbfc7e00e
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>
drivers/staging/pohmelfs/path_entry.c
fs/exec.c
fs/fs_struct.c
include/linux/fs_struct.h
kernel/fork.c