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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2009-12-15 16:47:28 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-16 07:20:09 -0800
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ipc/sem.c: sem optimise undo list search
Around a month ago, there was some discussion about an improvement of the sysv sem algorithm: Most (at least: some important) users only use simple semaphore operations, therefore it's worthwile to optimize this use case. This patch: Move last looked up sem_undo struct to the head of the task's undo list. Attempt to move common entries to the front of the list so search time is reduced. This reduces lookup_undo on oprofile of problematic SAP workload by 30% (see patch 4 for a description of SAP workload). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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