From: Vivek Goyal Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:25:02 +0000 (-0700) Subject: blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=be2c6b1990904dbd43f3d9b90fa2c530504375cd;p=linux-beck.git blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group o Jeff Moyer was doing some testing on a RAM backed disk and blkiocg_lookup_group() showed up high overhead after memcpy(). Similarly somebody else reported that blkiocg_lookup_group() is eating 6% extra cpu. Though looking at the code I can't think why the overhead of this function is so high. One thing is that it is called with very high frequency (once for every IO). o For lot of folks blkio controller will be compiled in but they might not have actually created cgroups. Hence optimize the case of root cgroup where we can avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() if IO is happening in root group (common case). Reported-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Acked-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c index 381b09bb562b..a89043a3caa4 100644 --- a/block/blk-throttle.c +++ b/block/blk-throttle.c @@ -168,7 +168,15 @@ static struct throtl_grp * throtl_find_alloc_tg(struct throtl_data *td, * tree of blkg (instead of traversing through hash list all * the time. */ - tg = tg_of_blkg(blkiocg_lookup_group(blkcg, key)); + + /* + * This is the common case when there are no blkio cgroups. + * Avoid lookup in this case + */ + if (blkcg == &blkio_root_cgroup) + tg = &td->root_tg; + else + tg = tg_of_blkg(blkiocg_lookup_group(blkcg, key)); /* Fill in device details for root group */ if (tg && !tg->blkg.dev && bdi->dev && dev_name(bdi->dev)) {