[POC 08/12] fs/dcache.c: access dentry_cache via rai_load

From: Rasmus Villemoes
Date: Wed Oct 17 2018 - 18:34:18 EST


This avoids a cacheline access to get the value of the dentry_cache
pointer in the places that do a kmem_cache_*(dentry_cache, ...);

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/dcache.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 2e7e8d85e9b4..1d54dfb38c9d 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <linux/bit_spinlock.h>
#include <linux/rculist_bl.h>
#include <linux/list_lru.h>
+#include <linux/rai.h>
#include "internal.h"
#include "mount.h"

@@ -76,7 +77,8 @@ __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(rename_lock);

EXPORT_SYMBOL(rename_lock);

-static struct kmem_cache *dentry_cache __read_mostly;
+static struct kmem_cache *__dentry_cache __read_mostly;
+#define dentry_cache rai_load(__dentry_cache)

const struct qstr empty_name = QSTR_INIT("", 0);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_name);
@@ -3088,7 +3090,7 @@ static void __init dcache_init(void)
* but it is probably not worth it because of the cache nature
* of the dcache.
*/
- dentry_cache = KMEM_CACHE_USERCOPY(dentry,
+ __dentry_cache = KMEM_CACHE_USERCOPY(dentry,
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD|SLAB_ACCOUNT,
d_iname);

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2.19.1.6.gbde171bbf5