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authorRobert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>2015-01-23 23:43:41 +0100
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2015-02-02 18:57:41 +0100
commit33811026a0a4208dd5725183d37fc92d5e88b0a2 (patch)
tree3ee9c60da0de30a40ea02be9db13b5c75fcb0ea4 /drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
parenthpsa: fix race between abort handler and main i/o path (diff)
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hpsa: optimize cmd_alloc function by remembering last allocation
Empirically, this improves performance slightly (~2% max IOPS) by allowing cmd_alloc to remember where it left off searching for free commands between calls instead of always starting its search at command 0. Reviewed-by: Scott Teel <scott.teel@pmcs.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Don Brace <don.brace@pmcs.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/hpsa.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/hpsa.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
index c95a20c5269b..72abcf3bfabf 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
@@ -4649,9 +4649,10 @@ static struct CommandList *cmd_alloc(struct ctlr_info *h)
union u64bit temp64;
dma_addr_t cmd_dma_handle, err_dma_handle;
int refcount;
- unsigned long offset = 0;
+ unsigned long offset;
- /* There is some *extremely* small but non-zero chance that that
+ /*
+ * There is some *extremely* small but non-zero chance that that
* multiple threads could get in here, and one thread could
* be scanning through the list of bits looking for a free
* one, but the free ones are always behind him, and other
@@ -4662,6 +4663,7 @@ static struct CommandList *cmd_alloc(struct ctlr_info *h)
* infrequently as to be indistinguishable from never.
*/
+ offset = h->last_allocation; /* benignly racy */
for (;;) {
i = find_next_zero_bit(h->cmd_pool_bits, h->nr_cmds, offset);
if (unlikely(i == h->nr_cmds)) {
@@ -4679,6 +4681,7 @@ static struct CommandList *cmd_alloc(struct ctlr_info *h)
h->cmd_pool_bits + (i / BITS_PER_LONG));
break; /* it's ours now. */
}
+ h->last_allocation = i; /* benignly racy */
/* Zero out all of commandlist except the last field, refcount */
memset(c, 0, offsetof(struct CommandList, refcount));