From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 05:50:50 +0200 > OK, I got rid of this guy from the RCU walk. Basically now hold > vfsmount_lock over the entire RCU path walk (which also pins the mnt) > and use a seqlock in the fs struct to get a consistent mnt,dentry > pair. This also simplifies the walk because we don't need the > complexity to avoid mntget/mntput (just do one final mntget on the > resulting mnt before dropping vfsmount_lock). > > vfsmount_lock adds one per-cpu atomic for the spinlock, and we > remove two thread-shared atomics for fs->lock so a net win for > both single threaded performance and thread-shared scalability. > Latency is no problem because we hold rcu_read_lock for the same > length of time anyway. > > The parallel git diff workload is improved by serveral percent. Sounds sweet Nick, can't wait to play with your next set of patches here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
