linux/fs/ceph
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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Kconfig ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
Makefile ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
addr.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2010-11-19 15:32:22 -08:00
caps.c ceph: fix rdcache_gen usage and invalidate 2010-11-08 07:29:05 -08:00
ceph_frag.c ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
debugfs.c ceph: fix debugfs warnings 2010-10-20 15:38:21 -07:00
dir.c fs: dcache remove dcache_lock 2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
export.c ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
file.c ceph: mark user pages dirty on direct-io reads 2010-12-17 09:54:40 -08:00
inode.c fs: icache RCU free inodes 2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
ioctl.c ceph: add CEPH_MDS_OP_SETDIRLAYOUT and associated ioctl. 2010-10-20 15:38:23 -07:00
ioctl.h ceph: fix ioctl magic 2010-12-06 09:45:22 -08:00
locks.c ceph: Behave better when handling file lock replies. 2010-12-01 14:22:34 -08:00
mds_client.c fs: dcache scale dentry refcount 2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
mds_client.h ceph: Handle file locks in replies from the MDS. 2010-12-01 14:22:27 -08:00
mdsmap.c ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
snap.c ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
strings.c ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
super.c convert ceph 2010-10-29 04:17:18 -04:00
super.h ceph: fix rdcache_gen usage and invalidate 2010-11-08 07:29:05 -08:00
xattr.c fs/ceph/xattr.c: Use kmemdup 2010-10-20 15:38:26 -07:00