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fs: check bh blocknr earlier when searching lru
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It's very common for the buffer heads in the lru to have different block
numbers.  By comparing the blocknr before the bdev and size we can
reduce the cost of searching in the very common case where all the
entries have the same bdev and size.

In quick hot cache cycle counting tests on a single fs workstation this
cut the cost of a miss by about 20%.

A diff of the disassembly shows the reordering of the bdev and blocknr
comparisons.  This is in such a tiny loop that skipping one comparison
is a meaningful portion of the total work being done:

     1628:      83 c1 01                add    $0x1,%ecx
     162b:      83 f9 08                cmp    $0x8,%ecx
     162e:      74 60                   je     1690 <__find_get_block+0xa0>
     1630:      89 c8                   mov    %ecx,%eax
     1632:      65 4c 8b 04 c5 00 00    mov    %gs:0x0(,%rax,8),%r8
     1639:      00 00
     163b:      4d 85 c0                test   %r8,%r8
     163e:      4c 89 c3                mov    %r8,%rbx
     1641:      74 e5                   je     1628 <__find_get_block+0x38>
-    1643:      4d 3b 68 30             cmp    0x30(%r8),%r13
+    1643:      4d 3b 68 18             cmp    0x18(%r8),%r13
     1647:      75 df                   jne    1628 <__find_get_block+0x38>
-    1649:      4d 3b 60 18             cmp    0x18(%r8),%r12
+    1649:      4d 3b 60 30             cmp    0x30(%r8),%r12
     164d:      75 d9                   jne    1628 <__find_get_block+0x38>
     164f:      49 39 50 20             cmp    %rdx,0x20(%r8)
     1653:      75 d3                   jne    1628 <__find_get_block+0x38>

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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zabbo authored and torvalds committed Oct 14, 2014
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions fs/buffer.c
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Expand Up @@ -1331,8 +1331,8 @@ lookup_bh_lru(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size)
for (i = 0; i < BH_LRU_SIZE; i++) {
struct buffer_head *bh = __this_cpu_read(bh_lrus.bhs[i]);

if (bh && bh->b_bdev == bdev &&
bh->b_blocknr == block && bh->b_size == size) {
if (bh && bh->b_blocknr == block && bh->b_bdev == bdev &&
bh->b_size == size) {
if (i) {
while (i) {
__this_cpu_write(bh_lrus.bhs[i],
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