So, for sticking kiocb completions on the kioctx ringbuffer, we need a
lock - it unfortunately can't be lockless.
When the kioctx is shared between threads on different cpus and the rate
of completions is high, this lock sees quite a bit of contention - in
terms of cacheline contention it's the hottest thing in the aio subsystem.
That means, with a regular spinlock, we're going to take a cache miss to
grab the lock, then another cache miss when we touch the data the lock
protects - if it's on the same cacheline as the lock, other cpus spinning
on the lock are going to be pulling it out from under us as we're using
it.
So, we use an old trick to get rid of this second forced cache miss - make
the data the lock protects be the lock itself, so we grab them both at
once.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>