This patchset introduces a simple list insertion/deletion batching
facility to batch multiple list insertion and deletion operations
into a single one under one lock/unlock critical section.
Patch 1 introduces this new facility.
Patch 2 enables it for the x86-64 architecture.
Patch 3 makes the insertion and deletion of the VFS superblock's
inode list to use the new list batching functions.
Waiman Long (3):
lib/list_batch: A simple list insertion/deletion batching facility
lib/list_batch, x86: Enable list insertion/deletion batching in
x86-64
vfs: Enable list batching for the superblock's inode list
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
fs/inode.c | 13 ++---
fs/super.c | 1 +
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +
include/linux/list_batch.h | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
lib/Kconfig | 7 +++
lib/Makefile | 1 +
lib/list_batch.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
8 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/list_batch.h
create mode 100644 lib/list_batch.c
