[PATCH] pipe: enable atomic copying of pipe data to/from user space

The pipe ->map() method uses kmap() to virtually map the pages, which
is both slow and has known scalability issues on SMP. This patch enables
atomic copying of pipe pages, by pre-faulting data and using kmap_atomic()
instead.

lmbench bw_pipe and lat_pipe measurements agree this is a Good Thing. Here
are results from that on a UP machine with highmem (1.5GiB of RAM), running
first a UP kernel, SMP kernel, and SMP kernel patched.

Vanilla-UP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1622.28 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1610.59 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1608.30 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 7.3275 microseconds
Pipe latency: 7.2995 microseconds
Pipe latency: 7.3097 microseconds

Vanilla-SMP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1382.19 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1317.27 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1355.61 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 9.6402 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.6696 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.6153 microseconds

Patched-SMP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1578.70 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1579.95 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1578.63 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 9.1654 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.2266 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.1527 microseconds

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 0a6916423e7d..d4664a297bab 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -640,13 +640,13 @@ find_page:
 		/*
 		 * Careful, ->map() uses KM_USER0!
 		 */
-		char *src = buf->ops->map(info, buf);
+		char *src = buf->ops->map(info, buf, 1);
 		char *dst = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER1);
 
 		memcpy(dst + offset, src + buf->offset, this_len);
 		flush_dcache_page(page);
 		kunmap_atomic(dst, KM_USER1);
-		buf->ops->unmap(info, buf);
+		buf->ops->unmap(info, buf, src);
 	}
 
 	ret = mapping->a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset, offset+this_len);