From be2c6b1990904dbd43f3d9b90fa2c530504375cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:25:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root
group
o Jeff Moyer was doing some testing on a RAM backed disk and
blkiocg_lookup_group() showed up high overhead after memcpy(). Similarly
somebody else reported that blkiocg_lookup_group() is eating 6% extra
cpu. Though looking at the code I can't think why the overhead of
this function is so high. One thing is that it is called with very high
frequency (once for every IO).
o For lot of folks blkio controller will be compiled in but they might
not have actually created cgroups. Hence optimize the case of root
cgroup where we can avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() if IO is happening
in root group (common case).
Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
---
block/blk-throttle.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c
index 381b09bb562b2..a89043a3caa41 100644
--- a/block/blk-throttle.c
+++ b/block/blk-throttle.c
@@ -168,7 +168,15 @@ static struct throtl_grp * throtl_find_alloc_tg(struct throtl_data *td,
* tree of blkg (instead of traversing through hash list all
* the time.
*/
- tg = tg_of_blkg(blkiocg_lookup_group(blkcg, key));
+
+ /*
+ * This is the common case when there are no blkio cgroups.
+ * Avoid lookup in this case
+ */
+ if (blkcg == &blkio_root_cgroup)
+ tg = &td->root_tg;
+ else
+ tg = tg_of_blkg(blkiocg_lookup_group(blkcg, key));
/* Fill in device details for root group */
if (tg && !tg->blkg.dev && bdi->dev && dev_name(bdi->dev)) {