From 35a82d1a53e1a9ad54efafcc940f9335beaed5c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:09:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] optimise loop driver a bit Looks like locking can be optimised quite a lot. Increase lock widths slightly so lo_lock is taken fewer times per request. Also it was quite trivial to cover lo_pending with that lock, and remove the atomic requirement. This also makes memory ordering explicitly correct, which is nice (not that I particularly saw any mem ordering bugs). Test was reading 4 250MB files in parallel on ext2-on-tmpfs filesystem (1K block size, 4K page size). System is 2 socket Xeon with HT (4 thread). intel:/home/npiggin# umount /dev/loop0 ; mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/loop ; /usr/bin/time ./mtloop.sh Before: 0.24user 5.51system 0:02.84elapsed 202%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0.19user 5.52system 0:02.88elapsed 198%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0.19user 5.57system 0:02.89elapsed 198%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0.22user 5.51system 0:02.90elapsed 197%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0.19user 5.44system 0:02.91elapsed 193%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k After: 0.07user 2.34system 0:01.68elapsed 143%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0.06user 2.37system 0:01.68elapsed 144%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0.06user 2.39system 0:01.68elapsed 145%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0.06user 2.36system 0:01.68elapsed 144%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0.06user 2.42system 0:01.68elapsed 147%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/loop.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/loop.h') diff --git a/include/linux/loop.h b/include/linux/loop.h index 8220d9c9da00..53fa51595443 100644 --- a/include/linux/loop.h +++ b/include/linux/loop.h @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ struct loop_device { struct semaphore lo_sem; struct semaphore lo_ctl_mutex; struct semaphore lo_bh_mutex; - atomic_t lo_pending; + int lo_pending; request_queue_t *lo_queue; }; -- cgit v1.2.1