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Commit 2831231d authored by Coly Li's avatar Coly Li Committed by Jens Axboe
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bcache: reduce cache_set devices iteration by devices_max_used



Member devices of struct cache_set is used to reference all attached
bcache devices to this cache set. If it is treated as array of pointers,
size of devices[] is indicated by member nr_uuids of struct cache_set.

nr_uuids is calculated in drivers/md/super.c:bch_cache_set_alloc(),
	bucket_bytes(c) / sizeof(struct uuid_entry)
Bucket size is determined by user space tool "make-bcache", by default it
is 1024 sectors (defined in bcache-tools/make-bcache.c:main()). So default
nr_uuids value is 4096 from the above calculation.

Every time when bcache code iterates bcache devices of a cache set, all
the 4096 pointers are checked even only 1 bcache device is attached to the
cache set, that's a wast of time and unncessary.

This patch adds a member devices_max_used to struct cache_set. Its value
is 1 + the maximum used index of devices[] in a cache set. When iterating
all valid bcache devices of a cache set, use c->devices_max_used in
for-loop may reduce a lot of useless checking.

Personally, my motivation of this patch is not for performance, I use it
in bcache debugging, which helps me to narrow down the scape to check
valid bcached devices of a cache set.

Signed-off-by: default avatarColy Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTang Junhui <tang.junhui@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent b40503ea
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