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[PATCH] mempool - only init waitqueue in slow path

Here's a small patch to improve the performance of mempool_alloc by only
initializing the wait queue when we're about to wait.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Benjamin LaHaise 20 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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      mm/mempool.c

+ 2 - 1
mm/mempool.c

@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *pool, unsigned int __nocast gfp_mask)
 {
 	void *element;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
+	wait_queue_t wait;
 	int gfp_temp;
 
 	might_sleep_if(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT);
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ repeat_alloc:
 
 	/* Now start performing page reclaim */
 	gfp_temp = gfp_mask;
+	init_wait(&wait);
 	prepare_to_wait(&pool->wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
 	smp_mb();
 	if (!pool->curr_nr)