On some workloads, (for example when lot of close() syscalls are done), RCU
qlen can be quite large, and RCU heads are no longer in cpu cache when
rcu_do_batch() is called.
This patches adds a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() to give CPU a hint to bring
back cache lines containing 'struct rcu_head's.
Most list manipulations macros include prefetch(), but not open coded ones (at
least with current C compilers :) )
I got a nice speedup on a trivial benchmark (3.48 us per iteration instead of
3.95 us on a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M)
while (1) { pipe(p); close(fd[0]); close(fd[1]);}
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
--- linux-2.6.19-rc6/kernel/rcupdate.c 2006-11-16 05:03:40.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-ed/kernel/rcupdate.c 2006-11-22 15:12:09.000000000 +0100
@@ -235,12 +235,14 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_data
list = rdp->donelist;
while (list) {
- next = rdp->donelist = list->next;
+ next = list->next;
+ prefetch(next);
list->func(list);
list = next;
if (++count >= rdp->blimit)
break;
}
+ rdp->donelist = list;
local_irq_disable();
rdp->qlen -= count;
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