[PATCH] kill_fasync speedup

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

fasync_helper and kill_fasync are helpers for managing F_SETFL fcntl 
calls that change FASYNC and sending the necessary signals. The locking 
uses one global rwlock that's acquired for read in all kill_fasync
calls, and that causes cache line trashing. This is not necessary: if
the fasync list is empty, then there is no need to acquire the rwlock.
Tests with reaim on a 4-way pIII on STP showed an 80% reduction of the
time within kill_fasync.

fs/fcntl.c

@@ -609,9 +609,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kill_fasync);
 
 void kill_fasync(struct fasync_struct **fp, int sig, int band)
 {
+	/* First a quick test without locking: usually
+	 * the list is empty.
+	 */
+	if (*fp) {
 		read_lock(&fasync_lock);
+		/* reread *fp after obtaining the lock */
 		__kill_fasync(*fp, sig, band);
 		read_unlock(&fasync_lock);
+	}
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kill_fasync);