linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs/buffer.c: make bh_lru

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Message-Id: <20161229193445.1913-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Dec 2016 13:34:45 -0600
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fs/buffer.c: make bh_lru_install() more efficient

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

To install a buffer_head into the cpu's LRU queue, bh_lru_install()
would construct a new copy of the queue and then memcpy it over the real
queue.  But it's easily possible to do the update in-place, which is
faster and simpler.  Some work can also be skipped if the buffer_head
was already in the queue.

As a microbenchmark I timed how long it takes to run sb_getblk()
10,000,000 times alternating between BH_LRU_SIZE + 1 blocks.
Effectively, this benchmarks looking up buffer_heads that are in the
page cache but not in the LRU:

	Before this patch: 1.758s
	After this patch: 1.653s

This patch also removes about 350 bytes of compiled code (on x86_64),
partly due to removal of the memcpy() which was being inlined+unrolled.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 fs/buffer.c | 43 +++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index d21771fcf7d3..282ca52517bf 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1273,44 +1273,31 @@ static inline void check_irqs_on(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * The LRU management algorithm is dopey-but-simple.  Sorry.
+ * Install a buffer_head into this cpu's LRU.  If not already in the LRU, it is
+ * inserted at the front, and the buffer_head at the back if any is evicted.
+ * Or, if already in the LRU it is moved to the front.
  */
 static void bh_lru_install(struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
-	struct buffer_head *evictee = NULL;
+	struct buffer_head *evictee = bh;
+	struct bh_lru *b;
+	int i;
 
 	check_irqs_on();
 	bh_lru_lock();
-	if (__this_cpu_read(bh_lrus.bhs[0]) != bh) {
-		struct buffer_head *bhs[BH_LRU_SIZE];
-		int in;
-		int out = 0;
-
-		get_bh(bh);
-		bhs[out++] = bh;
-		for (in = 0; in < BH_LRU_SIZE; in++) {
-			struct buffer_head *bh2 =
-				__this_cpu_read(bh_lrus.bhs[in]);
 
-			if (bh2 == bh) {
-				__brelse(bh2);
-			} else {
-				if (out >= BH_LRU_SIZE) {
-					BUG_ON(evictee != NULL);
-					evictee = bh2;
-				} else {
-					bhs[out++] = bh2;
-				}
-			}
+	b = this_cpu_ptr(&bh_lrus);
+	for (i = 0; i < BH_LRU_SIZE; i++) {
+		swap(evictee, b->bhs[i]);
+		if (evictee == bh) {
+			bh_lru_unlock();
+			return;
 		}
-		while (out < BH_LRU_SIZE)
-			bhs[out++] = NULL;
-		memcpy(this_cpu_ptr(&bh_lrus.bhs), bhs, sizeof(bhs));
 	}
-	bh_lru_unlock();
 
-	if (evictee)
-		__brelse(evictee);
+	get_bh(bh);
+	bh_lru_unlock();
+	brelse(evictee);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.11.0