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author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2006-12-06 20:38:44 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> | 2006-12-07 08:39:40 -0800 |
commit | 1c69d921ed9cc6593ad4f60c0f9951cb0d62b0b4 (patch) | |
tree | 669149c112fd917d68a301b2bcceae681af17a1c /fs | |
parent | 9a0efbb8795e8c5acb279d984b53d6af6ecdd00f (diff) |
[PATCH] rcu: add a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch()
On some workloads, (for example when lot of close() syscalls are done), RCU
qlen can be quite large, and RCU heads are no longer in cpu cache when
rcu_do_batch() is called.
This patch adds a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() to give CPU a hint to bring
back cache lines containing 'struct rcu_head's.
Most list manipulations macros include prefetch(), but not open coded ones
(at least with current C compilers :) )
I got a nice speedup on a trivial benchmark (3.48 us per iteration instead
of 3.95 us on a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M)
while (1) { pipe(p); close(fd[0]); close(fd[1]);}
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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