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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-07-26 11:36:34 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-07-26 18:57:09 +0200
commita209dfc7b0d94bd6fa94553c097836a2e6d0f0ba (patch)
tree7dacc92b08264c675a0dfcbae83982b7d3ad5135
parentDocumentation: Exporting: update description of d_splice_alias (diff)
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vfs: dont chain pipe/anon/socket on superblock s_inodes list
Workloads using pipes and sockets hit inode_sb_list_lock contention. superblock s_inodes list is needed for quota, dirty, pagecache and fsnotify management. pipe/anon/socket fs are clearly not candidates for these. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--fs/anon_inodes.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/inode.c39
-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h3
-rw-r--r--net/socket.c2
5 files changed, 35 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/fs/anon_inodes.c b/fs/anon_inodes.c
index 4d433d34736f..f11e43ed907d 100644
--- a/fs/anon_inodes.c
+++ b/fs/anon_inodes.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(anon_inode_getfd);
*/
static struct inode *anon_inode_mkinode(void)
{
- struct inode *inode = new_inode(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb);
+ struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb);
if (!inode)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 96c77b81167c..319b93b55570 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -362,9 +362,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inode_sb_list_add);
static inline void inode_sb_list_del(struct inode *inode)
{
- spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
- list_del_init(&inode->i_sb_list);
- spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
+ if (!list_empty(&inode->i_sb_list)) {
+ spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
+ list_del_init(&inode->i_sb_list);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
+ }
}
static unsigned long hash(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long hashval)
@@ -797,6 +799,29 @@ unsigned int get_next_ino(void)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_next_ino);
/**
+ * new_inode_pseudo - obtain an inode
+ * @sb: superblock
+ *
+ * Allocates a new inode for given superblock.
+ * Inode wont be chained in superblock s_inodes list
+ * This means :
+ * - fs can't be unmount
+ * - quotas, fsnotify, writeback can't work
+ */
+struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = alloc_inode(sb);
+
+ if (inode) {
+ spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+ inode->i_state = 0;
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_sb_list);
+ }
+ return inode;
+}
+
+/**
* new_inode - obtain an inode
* @sb: superblock
*
@@ -814,13 +839,9 @@ struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
spin_lock_prefetch(&inode_sb_list_lock);
- inode = alloc_inode(sb);
- if (inode) {
- spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
- inode->i_state = 0;
- spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+ inode = new_inode_pseudo(sb);
+ if (inode)
inode_sb_list_add(inode);
- }
return inode;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(new_inode);
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 1b7f9af67ccf..0e0be1dc0f8e 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ static const struct dentry_operations pipefs_dentry_operations = {
static struct inode * get_pipe_inode(void)
{
- struct inode *inode = new_inode(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb);
+ struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb);
struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
if (!inode)
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index a6658043258a..cc363fa7bb82 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2310,7 +2310,8 @@ extern void __iget(struct inode * inode);
extern void iget_failed(struct inode *);
extern void end_writeback(struct inode *);
extern void __destroy_inode(struct inode *);
-extern struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *);
+extern struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb);
+extern struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb);
extern void free_inode_nonrcu(struct inode *inode);
extern int should_remove_suid(struct dentry *);
extern int file_remove_suid(struct file *);
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 02dc82db3d23..26ed35c7751e 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static struct socket *sock_alloc(void)
struct inode *inode;
struct socket *sock;
- inode = new_inode(sock_mnt->mnt_sb);
+ inode = new_inode_pseudo(sock_mnt->mnt_sb);
if (!inode)
return NULL;