Commit c516610c authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara

quota: Make global quota locks cacheline aligned

Andrew Morton has suggested that three global quota locks can end up in the
same cacheline which can result in bad cacheline ping-pong on SMP machines.
Make locks cacheline aligned so that we avoid this problem (thanks goes to
Andrew for the idea).
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 884d179d
......@@ -129,9 +129,9 @@
* i_mutex on quota files is special (it's below dqio_mutex)
*/
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dq_list_lock);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dq_state_lock);
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dq_data_lock);
static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dq_list_lock);
static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dq_state_lock);
__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dq_data_lock);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dq_data_lock);
static char *quotatypes[] = INITQFNAMES;
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment