From 2a4419b5b2a77f3f4537c14f7ad7df95770655dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:37:33 +1000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- kernel/fork.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 98b450876f9..856eac3ec52 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -752,13 +752,13 @@ static int copy_fs(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs; if (clone_flags & CLONE_FS) { /* tsk->fs is already what we want */ - write_lock(&fs->lock); + spin_lock(&fs->lock); if (fs->in_exec) { - write_unlock(&fs->lock); + spin_unlock(&fs->lock); return -EAGAIN; } fs->users++; - write_unlock(&fs->lock); + spin_unlock(&fs->lock); return 0; } tsk->fs = copy_fs_struct(fs); @@ -1676,13 +1676,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(unshare, unsigned long, unshare_flags) if (new_fs) { fs = current->fs; - write_lock(&fs->lock); + spin_lock(&fs->lock); current->fs = new_fs; if (--fs->users) new_fs = NULL; else new_fs = fs; - write_unlock(&fs->lock); + spin_unlock(&fs->lock); } if (new_mm) { -- cgit v1.2.3