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* block: cfq: make the io contect sharing locklessJens Axboe2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The io context sharing introduced a per-ioc spinlock, that would protect the cfq io context lookup. That is a regression from the original, since we never needed any locking there because the ioc/cic were process private. The cic lookup is changed from an rbtree construct to a radix tree, which we can then use RCU to make the reader side lockless. That is the performance critical path, modifying the radix tree is only done on process creation (when that process first does IO, actually) and on process exit (if that process has done IO). As it so happens, radix trees are also much faster for this type of lookup where the key is a pointer. It's a very sparse tree. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* io context sharing: preliminary supportJens Axboe2008-01-28
| | | | | | | Detach task state from ioc, instead keep track of how many processes are accessing the ioc. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* ioprio: move io priority from task_struct to io_contextJens Axboe2008-01-28
This is where it belongs and then it doesn't take up space for a process that doesn't do IO. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>