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 --- fs/exec.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/exec.c') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 7761837..5adab2c 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ int check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm) bprm->unsafe = tracehook_unsafe_exec(p); n_fs = 1; - write_lock(&p->fs->lock); + spin_lock(&p->fs->lock); rcu_read_lock(); for (t = next_thread(p); t != p; t = next_thread(t)) { if (t->fs == p->fs) @@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ int check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm) res = 1; } } - write_unlock(&p->fs->lock); + spin_unlock(&p->fs->lock); return res; } -- cgit v1.1