[PATCH 24/42] ext4: use percpu data structures for lg_prealloc_list

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 00:11:19 EST


From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

lg_prealloc_list seems to cry out for a per-cpu data structure; on a large
smp system I think this should be better. I've lightly tested this change
on a 4-cpu system.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 13 +++++--------
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index af48548..01a7daa 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2541,17 +2541,16 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb, int needs_recovery)
sbi->s_mb_history_filter = EXT4_MB_HISTORY_DEFAULT;
sbi->s_mb_group_prealloc = MB_DEFAULT_GROUP_PREALLOC;

- i = sizeof(struct ext4_locality_group) * nr_cpu_ids;
- sbi->s_locality_groups = kmalloc(i, GFP_KERNEL);
+ sbi->s_locality_groups = alloc_percpu(struct ext4_locality_group);
if (sbi->s_locality_groups == NULL) {
clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, MBALLOC);
kfree(sbi->s_mb_offsets);
kfree(sbi->s_mb_maxs);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- for (i = 0; i < nr_cpu_ids; i++) {
+ for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
struct ext4_locality_group *lg;
- lg = &sbi->s_locality_groups[i];
+ lg = per_cpu_ptr(sbi->s_locality_groups, i);
mutex_init(&lg->lg_mutex);
for (j = 0; j < PREALLOC_TB_SIZE; j++)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lg->lg_prealloc_list[j]);
@@ -2648,8 +2647,7 @@ int ext4_mb_release(struct super_block *sb)
atomic_read(&sbi->s_mb_discarded));
}

- kfree(sbi->s_locality_groups);
-
+ free_percpu(sbi->s_locality_groups);
ext4_mb_history_release(sb);
ext4_mb_destroy_per_dev_proc(sb);

@@ -4100,8 +4098,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_group_or_file(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
* per cpu locality group is to reduce the contention between block
* request from multiple CPUs.
*/
- ac->ac_lg = &sbi->s_locality_groups[get_cpu()];
- put_cpu();
+ ac->ac_lg = per_cpu_ptr(sbi->s_locality_groups, raw_smp_processor_id());

/* we're going to use group allocation */
ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_HINT_GROUP_ALLOC;
--
1.5.6.1.205.ge2c7.dirty

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