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| author | Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> | 2017-02-10 10:35:02 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-08-15 18:14:43 +0200 |
| commit | b96e215e539509cae8bfe468689b70661cf511b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ef03b5f942cffd587af5d5448960775efca8cb7 /include | |
| parent | e31578c6fb0b89ceb8ef943528279571dfc0f8dc (diff) | |
proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering
commit d6cffbbe9a7e51eb705182965a189457c17ba8a3 upstream.
Currently unregistering sysctl table does not prune its dentries.
Stale dentries could slowdown sysctl operations significantly.
For example, command:
# for i in {1..100000} ; do unshare -n -- sysctl -a &> /dev/null ; done
creates a millions of stale denties around sysctls of loopback interface:
# sysctl fs.dentry-state
fs.dentry-state = 25812579 24724135 45 0 0 0
All of them have matching names thus lookup have to scan though whole
hash chain and call d_compare (proc_sys_compare) which checks them
under system-wide spinlock (sysctl_lock).
# time sysctl -a > /dev/null
real 1m12.806s
user 0m0.016s
sys 1m12.400s
Currently only memory reclaimer could remove this garbage.
But without significant memory pressure this never happens.
This patch collects sysctl inodes into list on sysctl table header and
prunes all their dentries once that table unregisters.
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> writes:
> On 10.02.2017 10:47, Al Viro wrote:
>> how about >> the matching stats *after* that patch?
>
> dcache size doesn't grow endlessly, so stats are fine
>
> # sysctl fs.dentry-state
> fs.dentry-state = 92712 58376 45 0 0 0
>
> # time sysctl -a &>/dev/null
>
> real 0m0.013s
> user 0m0.004s
> sys 0m0.008s
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sysctl.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index adf4e51cf597..b7e82049fec7 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ struct ctl_table_header struct ctl_table_set *set; struct ctl_dir *parent; struct ctl_node *node; + struct list_head inodes; /* head for proc_inode->sysctl_inodes */ }; struct ctl_dir { |