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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>2011-01-07 17:49:49 +1100
committerNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>2011-01-07 17:50:26 +1100
commitfa0d7e3de6d6fc5004ad9dea0dd6b286af8f03e9 (patch)
tree203e0f73883e4c26b5597e36042386a1237dab35 /fs/xfs
parent77812a1ef139d84270d27faacc0630c887411013 (diff)
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/xfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
index 0cdd26932d8e..d7de5a3f7867 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
@@ -91,6 +91,17 @@ xfs_inode_alloc(
return ip;
}
+STATIC void
+xfs_inode_free_callback(
+ struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu);
+ struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(inode);
+
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry);
+ kmem_zone_free(xfs_inode_zone, ip);
+}
+
void
xfs_inode_free(
struct xfs_inode *ip)
@@ -134,7 +145,7 @@ xfs_inode_free(
ASSERT(!spin_is_locked(&ip->i_flags_lock));
ASSERT(completion_done(&ip->i_flush));
- kmem_zone_free(xfs_inode_zone, ip);
+ call_rcu(&ip->i_vnode.i_rcu, xfs_inode_free_callback);
}
/*