Commit 9470dd5d authored by Zach Brown's avatar Zach Brown Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fs: check bh blocknr earlier when searching lru

It's very common for the buffer heads in the lru to have different block
numbers.  By comparing the blocknr before the bdev and size we can
reduce the cost of searching in the very common case where all the
entries have the same bdev and size.

In quick hot cache cycle counting tests on a single fs workstation this
cut the cost of a miss by about 20%.

A diff of the disassembly shows the reordering of the bdev and blocknr
comparisons.  This is in such a tiny loop that skipping one comparison
is a meaningful portion of the total work being done:

     1628:      83 c1 01                add    $0x1,%ecx
     162b:      83 f9 08                cmp    $0x8,%ecx
     162e:      74 60                   je     1690 <__find_get_block+0xa0>
     1630:      89 c8                   mov    %ecx,%eax
     1632:      65 4c 8b 04 c5 00 00    mov    %gs:0x0(,%rax,8),%r8
     1639:      00 00
     163b:      4d 85 c0                test   %r8,%r8
     163e:      4c 89 c3    ...
parent f9f2bac2
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