linux-ext4 - [PATCH 24/42] ext4: use percpu data structures for lg_prealloc

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Message-Id: <1223525160-9887-25-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Date:	Thu,  9 Oct 2008 00:05:42 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 24/42] ext4: use percpu data structures for lg_prealloc_list

From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

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@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
---
 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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