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Convert shmem_unuse_inode() to use a lockless gang lookup of the radix
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:52:53 +0000 (10:52 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 3 Aug 2011 04:19:25 +0000 (14:19 +1000)
commit646839c851f12eb3b19e29c751fa3002c948468a
treeab68bff4fc4708f88e7ba0f9092f1c159ef6e3f3
parent3be366c270a51cf1da93cf7499ed2fb32f3496a4
Convert shmem_unuse_inode() to use a lockless gang lookup of the radix
tree, searching for matching swap.

This is somewhat slower than the old method: because of repeated radix
tree descents, because of copying entries up, but probably most because
the old method noted and skipped once a vector page was cleared of swap.
Perhaps we can devise a use of radix tree tagging to achieve that later.

shmem_add_to_page_cache() uses shmem_radix_tree_replace() to compensate
for the lockless lookup by checking that the expected entry is in place,
under lock.  It is not very satisfactory to be copying this much from
add_to_page_cache_locked(), but I think easier to sell than insisting that
every caller of add_to_page_cache*() go through the extras.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c