[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables
authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:24 +0000 (01:37 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:56:56 +0000 (08:56 -0800)
commitfa3536cc144c1298f2ed9416c33f3b77fa2cd37a
tree5484541319b86ae7dac0def4db7925f7cc7008e7
parent878a9f30d7b13015f3aa4534d7877d985f150183
[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables

I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat.  So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing.  RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
12 files changed:
fs/bio.c
fs/block_dev.c
fs/dcache.c
fs/dcookies.c
fs/dnotify.c
fs/eventpoll.c
fs/fcntl.c
fs/inode.c
fs/inotify.c
fs/locks.c
fs/namespace.c
fs/pipe.c