linux/fs/minix
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 fs/Kconfig: move minix out 2009-01-22 13:15:58 +03:00
Makefile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
bitmap.c switch minix to ->evict_inode(), fix write_inode/delete_inode race 2010-08-09 16:47:53 -04:00
dir.c clean up write_begin usage for directories in pagecache 2010-08-09 16:47:31 -04:00
file.c remove inode_setattr 2010-08-09 16:47:37 -04:00
inode.c fs: icache RCU free inodes 2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
itree_common.c [PATCH] Minix V3 support 2007-02-12 09:48:31 -08:00
itree_v1.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
itree_v2.c fs/minix: bugfix, number of indirect block ptrs per block depends on block size 2010-05-27 22:06:22 -04:00
minix.h clean up write_begin usage for directories in pagecache 2010-08-09 16:47:31 -04:00
namei.c new helper: ihold() 2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00