System-installed files are usually 0755 or 0644, so in most cases, we
can avoid the binary search and the cost of pulling the cred->groups
array and in_group_p() .text into the cpu cache.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
---
Ballpark numbers: For example, building a random package like
util-linux with "make -j8" causes about 300000 calls/s of
generic_permission, with root-owned files (binaries, shared libraries,
system headers, and walking the directories from / to those)
outnumbering the user-owned files about 10:1, so in that case one
avoids, say, 250000 calls/s of in_group_p(). Assuming that the net
saving is about 20 instructions, that's 5M insn/s, which is of course
too small to measure (it's in the .1% range), but might still be
enough to justify this.
fs/namei.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 671c3c1a3425..c78757435317 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -303,7 +303,12 @@ static int acl_permission_check(struct inode *inode, int mask)
return error;
}
- if (in_group_p(inode->i_gid))
+ /*
+ * If the "group" and "other" permissions are the same,
+ * there's no point calling in_group_p() to decide which
+ * set to use.
+ */
+ if ((((mode >> 3) ^ mode) & 7) && in_group_p(inode->i_gid))
mode >>= 3;
}
--
2.23.0
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On 13/11/2019 22.45, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> System-installed files are usually 0755 or 0644, so in most cases, we
> can avoid the binary search and the cost of pulling the cred->groups
> array and in_group_p() .text into the cpu cache.