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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2011-08-01 21:38:06 -0700 |
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| committer | root <root@serles.lst.de> | 2011-10-28 14:58:57 +0200 |
| commit | 6e8267f532a17165ab551ac5fdafcba5333dcca5 (patch) | |
| tree | 7181c144b28f37d27275f74a538b01f891e149f7 | |
| parent | 0dc2bc49be545626a2dc6da133202ffe69ac3fcc (diff) | |
direct-io: use a slab cache for struct dio
A direct slab call is slightly faster than kmalloc and can be better cached
per CPU. It also avoids rounding to the next kmalloc slab.
In addition this enforces cache line alignment for struct dio to avoid
any false sharing.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/direct-io.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c index b01ea0d7160..6bb04409e72 100644 --- a/fs/direct-io.c +++ b/fs/direct-io.c @@ -140,7 +140,9 @@ struct dio { * wish that they not be zeroed. */ struct page *pages[DIO_PAGES]; /* page buffer */ -}; +} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; + +static struct kmem_cache *dio_cache __read_mostly; static void __inode_dio_wait(struct inode *inode) { @@ -330,7 +332,7 @@ static void dio_bio_end_aio(struct bio *bio, int error) if (remaining == 0) { dio_complete(dio, dio->iocb->ki_pos, 0, true); - kfree(dio); + kmem_cache_free(dio_cache, dio); } } @@ -1180,7 +1182,7 @@ direct_io_worker(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, if (ret2 == 0) { ret = dio_complete(dio, offset, ret, false); - kfree(dio); + kmem_cache_free(dio_cache, dio); } else BUG_ON(ret != -EIOCBQUEUED); @@ -1256,7 +1258,7 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, if (rw == READ && end == offset) return 0; - dio = kmalloc(sizeof(*dio), GFP_KERNEL); + dio = kmem_cache_alloc(dio_cache, GFP_KERNEL); retval = -ENOMEM; if (!dio) goto out; @@ -1280,7 +1282,7 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, end - 1); if (retval) { mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); - kfree(dio); + kmem_cache_free(dio_cache, dio); goto out; } } @@ -1308,3 +1310,10 @@ out: return retval; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blockdev_direct_IO); + +static __init int dio_init(void) +{ + dio_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dio, SLAB_PANIC); + return 0; +} +module_init(dio_init) |