ps3vram: Replace mutex by spinlock + bio_list

Remove the mutex serializing access to the cache.
Instead, queue up new requests on a bio_list if the driver is busy.

This improves sequential write performance by ca. 2%.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/ps3vram.c b/drivers/block/ps3vram.c
index 2c2ea9cb207b..7d1c742d6d66 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ps3vram.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ps3vram.c
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ struct ps3vram_priv {
 
         struct ps3vram_cache cache;
 
-        /* Used to serialize cache/DMA operations */
-        struct mutex lock;
+        spinlock_t lock;        /* protecting list of bios */
+        struct bio_list list;
 };
 
 
@@ -443,8 +443,6 @@ static int ps3vram_read(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev, loff_t from,
                 offset = (unsigned int) (from & (priv->cache.page_size - 1));
                 avail  = priv->cache.page_size - offset;
 
-                mutex_lock(&priv->lock);
-
                 entry = ps3vram_cache_match(dev, from);
                 cached = CACHE_OFFSET + entry * priv->cache.page_size + offset;
 
@@ -456,8 +454,6 @@ static int ps3vram_read(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev, loff_t from,
                         avail = count;
                 memcpy(buf, priv->xdr_buf + cached, avail);
 
-                mutex_unlock(&priv->lock);
-
                 buf += avail;
                 count -= avail;
                 from += avail;
@@ -488,8 +484,6 @@ static int ps3vram_write(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev, loff_t to,
                 offset = (unsigned int) (to & (priv->cache.page_size - 1));
                 avail  = priv->cache.page_size - offset;
 
-                mutex_lock(&priv->lock);
-
                 entry = ps3vram_cache_match(dev, to);
                 cached = CACHE_OFFSET + entry * priv->cache.page_size + offset;
 
@@ -503,8 +497,6 @@ static int ps3vram_write(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev, loff_t to,
 
                 priv->cache.tags[entry].flags |= CACHE_PAGE_DIRTY;
 
-                mutex_unlock(&priv->lock);
-
                 buf += avail;
                 count -= avail;
                 to += avail;
@@ -546,17 +538,17 @@ static void __devinit ps3vram_proc_init(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev)
                 dev_warn(&dev->core, "failed to create /proc entry\n");
 }
 
-static int ps3vram_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
+static struct bio *ps3vram_do_bio(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev,
+                                  struct bio *bio)
 {
-        struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev = q->queuedata;
+        struct ps3vram_priv *priv = dev->core.driver_data;
         int write = bio_data_dir(bio) == WRITE;
         const char *op = write ? "write" : "read";
         loff_t offset = bio->bi_sector << 9;
         int error = 0;
         struct bio_vec *bvec;
         unsigned int i;
-
-        dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s\n", __func__);
+        struct bio *next;
 
         bio_for_each_segment(bvec, bio, i) {
                 /* PS3 is ppc64, so we don't handle highmem */
@@ -587,7 +579,35 @@ static int ps3vram_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
         dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s completed\n", op);
 
 out:
+        spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock);
+        bio_list_pop(&priv->list);
+        next = bio_list_peek(&priv->list);
+        spin_unlock_irq(&priv->lock);
+
         bio_endio(bio, error);
+        return next;
+}
+
+static int ps3vram_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
+{
+        struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev = q->queuedata;
+        struct ps3vram_priv *priv = dev->core.driver_data;
+        int busy;
+
+        dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s\n", __func__);
+
+        spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock);
+        busy = !bio_list_empty(&priv->list);
+        bio_list_add(&priv->list, bio);
+        spin_unlock_irq(&priv->lock);
+
+        if (busy)
+                return 0;
+
+        do {
+                bio = ps3vram_do_bio(dev, bio);
+        } while (bio);
+
         return 0;
 }
 
@@ -607,7 +627,8 @@ static int __devinit ps3vram_probe(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev)
                 goto fail;
         }
 
-        mutex_init(&priv->lock);
+        spin_lock_init(&priv->lock);
+        bio_list_init(&priv->list);
         dev->core.driver_data = priv;
 
         priv = dev->core.driver_data;