The patch titled Subject: resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is resource-avoid-unnecessary-lookups-in-find_next_iomem_res.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/resource-avoid-unnecessary-lookups-in-find_next_iomem_res.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/resource-avoid-unnecessary-lookups-in-find_next_iomem_res.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res() find_next_iomem_res() shows up to be a source for overhead in dax benchmarks. Improve performance by not considering children of the tree if the top level does not match. Since the range of the parents should include the range of the children such check is redundant. Running sysbench on dax (pmem emulation, with write_cache disabled): sysbench fileio --file-total-size=3G --file-test-mode=rndwr \ --file-io-mode=mmap --threads=4 --file-fsync-mode=fdatasync run Provides the following results: events (avg/stddev) ------------------- 5.2-rc3: 1247669.0000/16075.39 w/patch: 1286320.5000/16402.72 (+3%) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190613045903.4922-3-namit@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/resource.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/resource.c~resource-avoid-unnecessary-lookups-in-find_next_iomem_res +++ a/kernel/resource.c @@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ static int find_next_iomem_res(resource_ unsigned long flags, unsigned long desc, bool first_lvl, struct resource *res) { + bool siblings_only = true; struct resource *p; if (!res) @@ -352,17 +353,31 @@ static int find_next_iomem_res(resource_ read_lock(&resource_lock); - for (p = iomem_resource.child; p; p = next_resource(p, first_lvl)) { - if ((p->flags & flags) != flags) - continue; - if ((desc != IORES_DESC_NONE) && (desc != p->desc)) - continue; + for (p = iomem_resource.child; p; p = next_resource(p, siblings_only)) { + /* If we passed the resource we are looking for, stop */ if (p->start > end) { p = NULL; break; } - if ((p->end >= start) && (p->start <= end)) - break; + + /* Skip until we find a range that matches what we look for */ + if (p->end < start) + continue; + + /* + * Now that we found a range that matches what we look for, + * check the flags and the descriptor. If we were not asked to + * use only the first level, start looking at children as well. + */ + siblings_only = first_lvl; + + if ((p->flags & flags) != flags) + continue; + if ((desc != IORES_DESC_NONE) && (desc != p->desc)) + continue; + + /* Found a match, break */ + break; } if (p) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from namit@xxxxxxxxxx are resource-fix-locking-in-find_next_iomem_res.patch resource-avoid-unnecessary-lookups-in-find_next_iomem_res.patch resource-introduce-resource-cache.patch