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author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> | 2011-01-07 07:49:49 +0100 |
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committer | Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> | 2011-01-07 07:50:26 +0100 |
commit | fa0d7e3de6d6fc5004ad9dea0dd6b286af8f03e9 (patch) | |
tree | 203e0f73883e4c26b5597e36042386a1237dab35 /fs/inode.c | |
parent | fs: consolidate dentry kill sequence (diff) | |
download | linux-fa0d7e3de6d6fc5004ad9dea0dd6b286af8f03e9.tar.xz linux-fa0d7e3de6d6fc5004ad9dea0dd6b286af8f03e9.zip |
fs: icache RCU free inodes
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:
- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
page lock to follow page->mapping.
The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.
In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.
The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/inode.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 5a0a898f55d1..6751dfe8cc06 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -272,6 +272,13 @@ void __destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__destroy_inode); +static void i_callback(struct rcu_head *head) +{ + struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry); + kmem_cache_free(inode_cachep, inode); +} + static void destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) { BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_lru)); @@ -279,7 +286,7 @@ static void destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) if (inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode) inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode(inode); else - kmem_cache_free(inode_cachep, (inode)); + call_rcu(&inode->i_rcu, i_callback); } /* @@ -432,6 +439,7 @@ void end_writeback(struct inode *inode) BUG_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING)); BUG_ON(inode->i_state & I_CLEAR); inode_sync_wait(inode); + /* don't need i_lock here, no concurrent mods to i_state */ inode->i_state = I_FREEING | I_CLEAR; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_writeback); |