Switching to RCU is quite easy, IDR being already RCU ready. idr_lock
should be locked only for an insert/delete, not a lookup.
Benchmark on a 2x4x2 machine, 16 processes calling timer_gettime().
Before :
real 1m18.669s
user 0m1.346s
sys 1m17.180s
After :
real 0m3.296s
user 0m1.366s
sys 0m1.926s
Reported-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>