From abf137dd7712132ee56d5b3143c2ff61a72a5faa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 08:11:22 +0100 Subject: aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless The mm->ioctx_list is currently protected by a reader-writer lock, so we always grab that lock on the read side for doing ioctx lookups. As the workload is extremely reader biased, turn this into an rcu hlist so we can make lookup_ioctx() lockless. Get rid of the rwlock and use a spinlock for providing update side exclusion. There's usually only 1 entry on this list, so it doesn't make sense to look into fancier data structures. Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- kernel/fork.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 6144b36cd897..43cbf30669e6 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -415,8 +415,8 @@ static struct mm_struct * mm_init(struct mm_struct * mm, struct task_struct *p) set_mm_counter(mm, file_rss, 0); set_mm_counter(mm, anon_rss, 0); spin_lock_init(&mm->page_table_lock); - rwlock_init(&mm->ioctx_list_lock); - mm->ioctx_list = NULL; + spin_lock_init(&mm->ioctx_lock); + INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&mm->ioctx_list); mm->free_area_cache = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE; mm->cached_hole_size = ~0UL; mm_init_owner(mm, p); -- cgit v1.2.1