Re: [PATCH 2/6] Don't touch the snap in srcu_readers_active()

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 05:57:34PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> srcu_readers_active() is called without the mutex, but it touch the snap.
> also achieve better cache locality a little
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Queued with updated commit-log message, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

	Expand the calls to srcu_readers_active_idx() from
	srcu_readers_active() inline.  This change improves cache locality
	by interating over the CPUs once rather than twice.

> ---
>  kernel/srcu.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/srcu.c b/kernel/srcu.c
> index b6b9ea2..fbe2d5f 100644
> --- a/kernel/srcu.c
> +++ b/kernel/srcu.c
> @@ -181,7 +181,14 @@ static bool srcu_readers_active_idx_check(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx)
>   */
>  static int srcu_readers_active(struct srcu_struct *sp)
>  {
> -	return srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, 0) + srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, 1);
> +	int cpu;
> +	unsigned long sum = 0;
> +
> +	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> +		sum += ACCESS_ONCE(per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu)->c[0]);
> +		sum += ACCESS_ONCE(per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu)->c[1]);
> +	}
> +	return sum & SRCU_REF_MASK;
>  }
> 
>  /**
> -- 
> 1.7.4.4
> 

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