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>
This commit is contained in:
Nick Piggin
2010-08-18 04:37:33 +10:00
committed by Al Viro
parent 44672e4fbd
commit 2a4419b5b2
5 changed files with 34 additions and 34 deletions

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@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ int check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
bprm->unsafe = tracehook_unsafe_exec(p);
n_fs = 1;
write_lock(&p->fs->lock);
spin_lock(&p->fs->lock);
rcu_read_lock();
for (t = next_thread(p); t != p; t = next_thread(t)) {
if (t->fs == p->fs)
@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ int check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
res = 1;
}
}
write_unlock(&p->fs->lock);
spin_unlock(&p->fs->lock);
return res;
}