From fa0d7e3de6d6fc5004ad9dea0dd6b286af8f03e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:49:49 +1100 Subject: 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 --- fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/freevxfs') diff --git a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c index 8c04eac5079..2ba6719ac61 100644 --- a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_inode.c @@ -337,6 +337,13 @@ vxfs_iget(struct super_block *sbp, ino_t ino) return ip; } +static void vxfs_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(vxfs_inode_cachep, inode->i_private); +} + /** * vxfs_evict_inode - remove inode from main memory * @ip: inode to discard. @@ -350,5 +357,5 @@ vxfs_evict_inode(struct inode *ip) { truncate_inode_pages(&ip->i_data, 0); end_writeback(ip); - kmem_cache_free(vxfs_inode_cachep, ip->i_private); + call_rcu(&ip->i_rcu, vxfs_i_callback); } -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258