[PATCH] page_uptodate locking scalability
Use a bit spin lock in the first buffer of the page to synchronise asynch
IO buffer completions, instead of the global page_uptodate_lock, which is
showing some scalabilty problems.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 561e63a..6a25d7d 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -513,8 +513,8 @@
*/
static void end_buffer_async_read(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate)
{
- static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(page_uptodate_lock);
unsigned long flags;
+ struct buffer_head *first;
struct buffer_head *tmp;
struct page *page;
int page_uptodate = 1;
@@ -536,7 +536,9 @@
* two buffer heads end IO at almost the same time and both
* decide that the page is now completely done.
*/
- spin_lock_irqsave(&page_uptodate_lock, flags);
+ first = page_buffers(page);
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ bit_spin_lock(BH_Uptodate_Lock, &first->b_state);
clear_buffer_async_read(bh);
unlock_buffer(bh);
tmp = bh;
@@ -549,7 +551,8 @@
}
tmp = tmp->b_this_page;
} while (tmp != bh);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&page_uptodate_lock, flags);
+ bit_spin_unlock(BH_Uptodate_Lock, &first->b_state);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
/*
* If none of the buffers had errors and they are all
@@ -561,7 +564,8 @@
return;
still_busy:
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&page_uptodate_lock, flags);
+ bit_spin_unlock(BH_Uptodate_Lock, &first->b_state);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
return;
}
@@ -572,8 +576,8 @@
void end_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate)
{
char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
- static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(page_uptodate_lock);
unsigned long flags;
+ struct buffer_head *first;
struct buffer_head *tmp;
struct page *page;
@@ -594,7 +598,10 @@
SetPageError(page);
}
- spin_lock_irqsave(&page_uptodate_lock, flags);
+ first = page_buffers(page);
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ bit_spin_lock(BH_Uptodate_Lock, &first->b_state);
+
clear_buffer_async_write(bh);
unlock_buffer(bh);
tmp = bh->b_this_page;
@@ -605,12 +612,14 @@
}
tmp = tmp->b_this_page;
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&page_uptodate_lock, flags);
+ bit_spin_unlock(BH_Uptodate_Lock, &first->b_state);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
end_page_writeback(page);
return;
still_busy:
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&page_uptodate_lock, flags);
+ bit_spin_unlock(BH_Uptodate_Lock, &first->b_state);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
return;
}