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Commit bf17bb71 authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ipc/sem.c: sem optimise undo list search


Around a month ago, there was some discussion about an improvement of the
sysv sem algorithm: Most (at least: some important) users only use simple
semaphore operations, therefore it's worthwile to optimize this use case.

This patch:

Move last looked up sem_undo struct to the head of the task's undo list.
Attempt to move common entries to the front of the list so search time is
reduced.  This reduces lookup_undo on oprofile of problematic SAP workload
by 30% (see patch 4 for a description of SAP workload).

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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