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SubjectRe: [PATCH] blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group
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Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:56:06PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>> 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 <jmoyer@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> Do you have any concerns regarding this patch?

Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>

Jens, this is a pretty easy performance regression fixup. I think it
should be pulled in sooner rather than later. We've also witnessed this
slowdown on big performance testing rigs, so it's not just a ramdisk
issue.

Cheers,
Jeff

>> ---
>> block/blk-throttle.c | 10 +++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6/block/blk-throttle.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/block/blk-throttle.c 2011-01-17 16:23:37.041280712 -0500
>> +++ linux-2.6/block/blk-throttle.c 2011-01-17 16:36:09.362940975 -0500
>> @@ -168,7 +168,15 @@ static struct throtl_grp * throtl_find_a
>> * 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)) {
>>


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