From 1bf47346d75790ebd2563d909d48046961c7ffd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:37:56 -0800 Subject: kernel/sys.c: get rid of expensive divides in groups_sort() groups_sort() can be quite long if user loads a large gid table. This is because GROUP_AT(group_info, some_integer) uses an integer divide. So having to do XXX thousand divides during one syscall can lead to very high latencies. (NGROUPS_MAX=65536) In the past (25 Mar 2006), an analog problem was found in groups_search() (commit d74beb9f33a5f16d2965f11b275e401f225c949d ) and at that time I changed some variables to unsigned int. I believe that a more generic fix is to make sure NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK is unsigned. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 9c13be3a21e8..7c8ca05c3cae 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ static inline int above_background_load(void) struct io_context; /* See blkdev.h */ #define NGROUPS_SMALL 32 -#define NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK ((int)(PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(gid_t))) +#define NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK ((unsigned int)(PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(gid_t))) struct group_info { int ngroups; atomic_t usage; -- cgit v1.2.3