linux/fs/hfsplus
Nick Piggin fa0d7e3de6 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>
2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
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bfind.c hfsplus: handle more on-disk corruptions without oopsing 2010-10-14 09:53:48 -04:00
bitmap.c hfsplus: fix HFSPLUS_SB calling convention 2010-10-01 05:42:59 +02:00
bnode.c [PATCH] fs: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc 2006-09-27 08:26:10 -07:00
brec.c hfsplus: validate btree flags 2010-10-14 09:54:23 -04:00
btree.c hfsplus: validate btree flags 2010-10-14 09:54:23 -04:00
catalog.c hfsplus: create correct initial catalog entries for device files 2010-10-14 09:54:39 -04:00
dir.c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hch/hfsplus 2010-10-28 09:32:05 -07:00
extents.c hfsplus: add missing extent locking in hfsplus_write_inode 2010-10-01 05:46:31 +02:00
hfsplus_fs.h fs: change d_hash for rcu-walk 2011-01-07 17:50:20 +11:00
hfsplus_raw.h hfsplus: handle more on-disk corruptions without oopsing 2010-10-14 09:53:48 -04:00
inode.c list.h: new helper - hlist_add_fake() 2010-10-25 21:24:15 -04:00
ioctl.c hfsplus: fix double lock typo in ioctl 2010-10-25 20:39:07 +02:00
Kconfig fs/Kconfig: move hfs, hfsplus out 2009-01-22 13:15:57 +03:00
Makefile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
options.c hfsplus: use atomic bitops for the superblock flags 2010-10-01 05:45:20 +02:00
part_tbl.c hfsplus: fix HFSPLUS_SB calling convention 2010-10-01 05:42:59 +02:00
super.c fs: icache RCU free inodes 2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
tables.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
unicode.c fs: change d_hash for rcu-walk 2011-01-07 17:50:20 +11:00
wrapper.c hfsplus: use atomic bitops for the superblock flags 2010-10-01 05:45:20 +02:00