linux/fs/exofs
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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BUGS exofs: Documentation 2009-03-31 19:44:38 +03:00
Kbuild exofs: move osd.c to ios.c 2009-12-10 09:59:21 +02:00
Kconfig
common.h exofs: Define on-disk per-inode optional layout attribute 2010-02-28 03:35:28 -08:00
dir.c fs/exofs: typo fix of faild to failed 2010-10-25 18:02:49 +02:00
exofs.h convert exofs to ->evict_inode() 2010-08-09 16:48:24 -04:00
file.c fs: add sync_inode_metadata 2010-10-25 21:18:19 -04:00
inode.c exofs: Remove inode->i_count manipulation in exofs_new_inode 2010-10-25 18:03:07 +02:00
ios.c fs/exofs: typo fix of faild to failed 2010-10-25 18:02:49 +02:00
namei.c new helper: ihold() 2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00
pnfs.h exofs: fix pnfs_osd re-definitions in pre-pnfs trees 2010-01-05 09:14:32 +02:00
super.c fs: icache RCU free inodes 2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
symlink.c exofs: Remove IBM copyrights 2009-06-21 17:53:47 +03:00