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Andrew Morton authored
From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> fget() shows up on profiles, especially on SMP. Dipankar's patch special-cases the situation wherein there are no sharers of current->files. In this situation we know that no other process can close this file, so it is not necessary to increment the file's refcount. It's ugly as sin, but makes a substantial difference. The test is dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1 count=1M On 4CPU P3 xeon with 1MB L2 cache and 512MB ram: kernel sys time std-dev ------------ -------- ------- UP - vanilla 2.104 0.028 UP - file 1.867 0.019 SMP - vanilla 2.976 0.023 SMP - file 2.719 0.026
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