sysvipc: make get_maxid O(1) again

For a custom microbenchmark on a 3.30GHz Xeon SandyBridge, which calls
IPC_STAT over and over, it was calculated that, on avg the cost of
ipc_get_maxid() for increasing amounts of keys was:

 10 keys: ~900 cycles
 100 keys: ~15000 cycles
 1000 keys: ~150000 cycles
 10000 keys: ~2100000 cycles

This is unsurprising as maxid is currently O(n).

By having the max_id available in O(1) we save all those cycles for each
semctl(_STAT) command, the idr_find can be expensive -- which some real
(customer) workloads actually poll on.

Note that this used to be the case, until commit 7ca7e564e04 ("ipc:
store ipcs into IDRs").  The cost is the extra idr_find when doing
RMIDs, but we simply go backwards, and should not take too many
iterations to find the new value.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831172049.14576-5-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ipc/util.h b/ipc/util.h
index 0cd6201fe63a..89b8ec176fc4 100644
--- a/ipc/util.h
+++ b/ipc/util.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/ipc_namespace.h>
 
 #define SEQ_MULTIPLIER	(IPCMNI)
 
@@ -99,9 +100,6 @@ void __init ipc_init_proc_interface(const char *path, const char *header,
 /* must be called with ids->rwsem acquired for writing */
 int ipc_addid(struct ipc_ids *, struct kern_ipc_perm *, int);
 
-/* must be called with ids->rwsem acquired for reading */
-int ipc_get_maxid(struct ipc_ids *);
-
 /* must be called with both locks acquired. */
 void ipc_rmid(struct ipc_ids *, struct kern_ipc_perm *);
 
@@ -111,6 +109,23 @@ void ipc_set_key_private(struct ipc_ids *, struct kern_ipc_perm *);
 /* must be called with ipcp locked */
 int ipcperms(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp, short flg);
 
+/**
+ * ipc_get_maxid - get the last assigned id
+ * @ids: ipc identifier set
+ *
+ * Called with ipc_ids.rwsem held for reading.
+ */
+static inline int ipc_get_maxid(struct ipc_ids *ids)
+{
+	if (ids->in_use == 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	if (ids->in_use == IPCMNI)
+		return IPCMNI - 1;
+
+	return ids->max_id;
+}
+
 /*
  * For allocation that need to be freed by RCU.
  * Objects are reference counted, they start with reference count 1.