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authorNadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>2008-07-25 01:47:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-25 10:53:41 -0700
commit2027d1abc25ff770cc3bc936abd33570ce85d85a (patch)
tree0b98b112518d3325deaaad5e8ee78c001235471e /arch/mips
parent95b68dec0d52c7b8fea3698b3938cf3ab936436b (diff)
idr: change the idr structure
After scalability problems have been detected when using the sysV ipcs, I have proposed to use an RCU based implementation of the IDR api instead (see threads http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/11/212 and http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/29/295). This resulted in many people asking to convert the idr API and make it rcu safe (because most of the code was duplicated and thus unmaintanable and unreviewable). So here is a first attempt. The important change wrt to the idr API itself is during idr removes: idr layers are freed after a grace period, instead of being moved to the free list. The important change wrt to ipcs, is that idr_find() can now be called locklessly inside a rcu read critical section. Here are the results I've got for the pmsg test sent by Manfred: 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 2.6.25-rc3-mm1+ 2.6.25-mm1 Patched 2.6.25-mm1 1 1168441 1064021 876000 947488 2 1094264 921059 1549592 1730685 3 2082520 1738165 1694370 2324880 4 2079929 1695521 404553 2400408 5 2898758 406566 391283 3246580 6 2921417 261275 263249 3752148 7 3308761 126056 191742 4243142 8 3329456 100129 141722 4275780 1st column: stock 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 2nd column: 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 + ipc patches (store ipcs into idrs) 3nd column: stock 2.6.25-mm1 4th column: 2.6.25-mm1 + this pacth series. This patch: Add an rcu_head to the idr_layer structure in order to free it after a grace period. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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