the order that they arrive, to holding
(a) granted write lock requests, followed by
(b) granted read lock requests, followed by
(c) ungranted requests, in order of arrival.
This changes the stopping condition for iterating through granted locks to
see if a new request can be granted: When considering a read lock request,
we can stop iterating as soon as we see a read lock request, since anything
after that point is either a granted read lock request or a request which
has not yet been granted. (For write lock requests, we must still compare
against all granted lock requests.)
For workloads with R parallel reads and W parallel writes, this improves
the time spent from O((R+W)^2) to O(W*(R+W)); i.e., heavy parallel-read
workloads become significantly more scalable.
No statistically significant change in buildworld time has been measured,
but synthetic tests of parallel 'dd > /dev/null' and 'openssl enc >/dev/null'
with the input file cached yield dramatic (up to 10x) improvement with high
(up to 128 processes) levels of parallelism.
Reviewed by: kib
the i/o regions of the vnode data space. The implementation is quite
simple-minded, it uses the list of the lock requests, ordered by
arrival time. Each request may be for read or for write. The
implementation is fair FIFO.
MFC after: 2 month
