The nr_unused counters count the number of objects on an LRU, and as such they
are synchronized with LRU object insertion and removal and scanning, and
protected under the LRU lock.
Making it per-cpu does not actually get any concurrency improvements because of
this lock, and summing the counter is much slower, and
incrementing/decrementing it costs more code size and is slower too.
These counters should stay per-LRU, which currently means global.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
split invalidate_inodes()
fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
fsnotify: use dget_parent
smbfs: use dget_parent
exportfs: use dget_parent
fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
fs: clean up dentry lru modification
fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
fs: simplify __d_free
fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
new helper: ihold()
...
IMA currently allocated an inode integrity structure for every inode in
core. This stucture is about 120 bytes long. Most files however
(especially on a system which doesn't make use of IMA) will never need
any of this space. The problem is that if IMA is enabled we need to
know information about the number of readers and the number of writers
for every inode on the box. At the moment we collect that information
in the per inode iint structure and waste the rest of the space. This
patch moves those counters into the struct inode so we can eventually
stop allocating an IMA integrity structure except when absolutely
needed.
This patch does the minimum needed to move the location of the data.
Further cleanups, especially the location of counter updates, may still
be possible.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull removal of fsnotify marks into generic_shutdown_super().
Split umount-time work into a new function - evict_inodes().
Make sure that invalidate_inodes() will be able to cope with
I_FREEING once we change locking in iput().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Despite the comment above it we can not safely drop the lock here.
invalidate_list is called from many other places that just umount.
Also switch to proper list macros now that we never drop the lock.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The use of the same inode list structure (inode->i_list) for two
different list constructs with different lifecycles and purposes
makes it impossible to separate the locking of the different
operations. Therefore, to enable the separation of the locking of
the writeback and reclaim lists, split the inode->i_list into two
separate lists dedicated to their specific tracking functions.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We must not call invalidate_inode_buffers in invalidate_list unless the
inode can be reclaimed. If we remove the buffer association of a busy
inode fsync won't find the buffers anymore. As invalidate_inode_buffers
is called from various others sources than umount this actually does
matter in practice.
While at it change the loop to a more natural form and remove the
WARN_ON for I_NEW, wich we already tested a few lines above.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
by themselves. For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
but that's left for later patches.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
new_inode() dirties a contended cache line to get increasing
inode numbers. This limits performance on workloads that cause
significant parallel inode allocation.
Solve this problem by using a per_cpu variable fed by the shared
last_ino in batches of 1024 allocations. This reduces contention on
the shared last_ino, and give same spreading ino numbers than before
(i.e. same wraparound after 2^32 allocations).
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Split up inode_add_to_list/__inode_add_to_list. Locking for the two
lists will be split soon so these helpers really don't buy us much
anymore.
The __ prefixes for the sb list helpers will go away soon, but until
inode_lock is gone we'll need them to distinguish between the locked
and unlocked variants.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Now that iunique is not abusing find_inode anymore we can move the i_ref
increment back to where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Stop abusing find_inode_fast for iunique and opencode the inode hash walk.
Introduce a new iunique_lock to protect the iunique counters once inode_lock
is removed.
Based on a patch originally from Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Before replacing the inode hash locking with a more scalable
mechanism, factor the removal of the inode from the hashes rather
than open coding it in several places.
Based on a patch originally from Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Convert the inode LRU to use lazy updates to reduce lock and
cacheline traffic. We avoid moving inodes around in the LRU list
during iget/iput operations so these frequent operations don't need
to access the LRUs. Instead, we defer the refcount checks to
reclaim-time and use a per-inode state flag, I_REFERENCED, to tell
reclaim that iget has touched the inode in the past. This means that
only reclaim should be touching the LRU with any frequency, hence
significantly reducing lock acquisitions and the amount contention
on LRU updates.
This also removes the inode_in_use list, which means we now only
have one list for tracking the inode LRU status. This makes it much
simpler to split out the LRU list operations under it's own lock.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The number of inodes allocated does not need to be tied to the
addition or removal of an inode to/from a list. If we are not tied
to a list lock, we could update the counters when inodes are
initialised or destroyed, but to do that we need to convert the
counters to be per-cpu (i.e. independent of a lock). This means that
we have the freedom to change the list/locking implementation
without needing to care about the counters.
Based on a patch originally from Eric Dumazet.
[AV: cleaned up a bit, fixed build breakage on weird configs
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Since inode->i_mode shares its bits for S_IFMT, S_ISDIR should be
used to distinguish whether it is a dir or not.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Hugetlbfs used to need it, but after the destroy_inode and evict_inode
changes it's not required anymore.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: (132 commits)
fanotify: use both marks when possible
fsnotify: pass both the vfsmount mark and inode mark
fsnotify: walk the inode and vfsmount lists simultaneously
fsnotify: rework ignored mark flushing
fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists
fsnotify: remove group->mask
fsnotify: remove the global masks
fsnotify: cleanup should_send_event
fanotify: use the mark in handler functions
audit: use the mark in handler functions
dnotify: use the mark in handler functions
inotify: use the mark in handler functions
fsnotify: send fsnotify_mark to groups in event handling functions
fsnotify: Exchange list heads instead of moving elements
fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks
fsnotify: use an explicit flag to indicate fsnotify_destroy_mark has been called
fsnotify: use _rcu functions for mark list traversal
fsnotify: place marks on object in order of group memory address
vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput
fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
...
Fix up trivial delete/modify conflict in fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c.
Essentially, the minimal variant of ->evict_inode(). It's
a trimmed-down clear_inode(), sans any fs callbacks. Once
it returns we know that no async writeback will be happening;
every ->evict_inode() instance should do that once and do that
before doing anything ->write_inode() could interfere with
(e.g. freeing the on-disk inode).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
All call chains to clear_inode() pass through evict_inode() and
clear_inode() should be called by evict_inode() exactly once.
So we can pull i_bdev/i_cdev detaching up to evict_inode() itself.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Hybrid of ->clear_inode() and ->delete_inode(); if present, does
all fs work to be done when in-core inode is about to be gone,
for whatever reason.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
add I_CLEAR instead of replacing I_FREEING with it. I_CLEAR is
equivalent to I_FREEING for almost all code looking at either;
it's there to keep track of having called clear_inode() exactly
once per inode lifetime, at some point after having set I_FREEING.
I_CLEAR and I_FREEING never get set at the same time with the
current code, so we can switch to setting i_flags to I_FREEING | I_CLEAR
instead of I_CLEAR without loss of information. As the result of
such change, checks become simpler and the amount of code that needs
to know about I_CLEAR shrinks a lot.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback
to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink
caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker
structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure
in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the
callback via container_of().
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Using atomic_inc_return in __iget(struct inode *inode) makes the intent
of this code clearer and generates less code on processors that have
this operation.
On x86_64 this patch reduces the text size of inode.o by 12 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
----
patch against 2.6.34-rc7
compiled & tested on x86_64 AMD X2
I've been running with this patch applied for several weeks with no
obvious problems.
regards
Richard
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Currently various places in the VFS call vfs_dq_init directly. This means
we tie the quota code into the VFS. Get rid of that and make the
filesystem responsible for the initialization. For most metadata operations
this is a straight forward move into the methods, but for truncate and
open it's a bit more complicated.
For truncate we currently only call vfs_dq_init for the sys_truncate case
because open already takes care of it for ftruncate and open(O_TRUNC) - the
new code causes an additional vfs_dq_init for those which is harmless.
For open the initialization is moved from do_filp_open into the open method,
which means it happens slightly earlier now, and only for regular files.
The latter is fine because we don't need to initialize it for operations
on special files, and we already do it as part of the namespace operations
for directories.
Add a dquot_file_open helper that filesystems that support generic quotas
can use to fill in ->open.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Currently clear_inode calls vfs_dq_drop directly. This means
we tie the quota code into the VFS. Get rid of that and make the
filesystem responsible for the drop inside the ->clear_inode
superblock operation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
After I_SYNC was split from I_LOCK the leftover is always used together with
I_NEW and thus superflous.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Based on discussions on LKML and LSM, where there are consecutive
security_ and ima_ calls in the vfs layer, move the ima_ calls to
the existing security_ hooks.
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Do a similar optimization as earlier for touch_atime. Getting the lock in
mnt_get_write is relatively costly, so try all avenues to avoid it first.
This patch is careful to still only update inode fields inside the lock
region.
This didn't show up in benchmarks, but it's easy enough to do.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix inverted test of mnt_want_write_file()]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Some benchmark testing shows touch_atime to be high up in profile logs for
IO intensive workloads. Most likely that's due to the lock in
mnt_want_write(). Unfortunately touch_atime first takes the lock, and
then does all the other tests that could avoid atime updates (like noatime
or relatime).
Do it the other way round -- first try to avoid the update and only then
if that didn't succeed take the lock. That works because none of the
atime avoidance tests rely on locking.
This also eliminates a goto.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Hugetlbfs needs to do special things instead of truncate_inode_pages().
Currently, it copied generic_forget_inode() except for
truncate_inode_pages() call which is asking for trouble (the code there
isn't trivial). So create a separate function generic_detach_inode()
which does all the list magic done in generic_forget_inode() and call
it from hugetlbfs_forget_inode().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add device-id and inode number for better debugging. This was suggested
by Andreas in one of the threads
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/12062 .
"If anyone has a chance, fixing this error message to be not-useless would
be good... Including the device name and the inode number would help
track down the source of the problem."
Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We have had a report of bad memory allocation latency during DVD-RAM (UDF)
writing. This is causing the user's desktop session to become unusable.
Jan tracked the cause of this down to UDF inode reclaim blocking:
gnome-screens D ffff810006d1d598 0 20686 1
ffff810006d1d508 0000000000000082 ffff810037db6718 0000000000000800
ffff810006d1d488 ffffffff807e4280 ffffffff807e4280 ffff810006d1a580
ffff8100bccbc140 ffff810006d1a8c0 0000000006d1d4e8 ffff810006d1a8c0
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff804477f3>] io_schedule+0x63/0xa5
[<ffffffff802c2587>] sync_buffer+0x3b/0x3f
[<ffffffff80447d2a>] __wait_on_bit+0x47/0x79
[<ffffffff80447dc6>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6a/0x77
[<ffffffff802c24f6>] __wait_on_buffer+0x1f/0x21
[<ffffffff802c442a>] __bread+0x70/0x86
[<ffffffff88de9ec7>] :udf:udf_tread+0x38/0x3a
[<ffffffff88de0fcf>] :udf:udf_update_inode+0x4d/0x68c
[<ffffffff88de26e1>] :udf:udf_write_inode+0x1d/0x2b
[<ffffffff802bcf85>] __writeback_single_inode+0x1c0/0x394
[<ffffffff802bd205>] write_inode_now+0x7d/0xc4
[<ffffffff88de2e76>] :udf:udf_clear_inode+0x3d/0x53
[<ffffffff802b39ae>] clear_inode+0xc2/0x11b
[<ffffffff802b3ab1>] dispose_list+0x5b/0x102
[<ffffffff802b3d35>] shrink_icache_memory+0x1dd/0x213
[<ffffffff8027ede3>] shrink_slab+0xe3/0x158
[<ffffffff8027fbab>] try_to_free_pages+0x177/0x232
[<ffffffff8027a578>] __alloc_pages+0x1fa/0x392
[<ffffffff802951fa>] alloc_page_vma+0x176/0x189
[<ffffffff802822d8>] __do_fault+0x10c/0x417
[<ffffffff80284232>] handle_mm_fault+0x466/0x940
[<ffffffff8044b922>] do_page_fault+0x676/0xabf
This blocks with iprune_mutex held, which then blocks other reclaimers:
X D ffff81009d47c400 0 17285 14831
ffff8100844f3728 0000000000000086 0000000000000000 ffff81000000e288
ffff81000000da00 ffffffff807e4280 ffffffff807e4280 ffff81009d47c400
ffffffff805ff890 ffff81009d47c740 00000000844f3808 ffff81009d47c740
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80447f8c>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x72/0xa9
[<ffffffff80447e1a>] mutex_lock+0x1e/0x22
[<ffffffff802b3ba1>] shrink_icache_memory+0x49/0x213
[<ffffffff8027ede3>] shrink_slab+0xe3/0x158
[<ffffffff8027fbab>] try_to_free_pages+0x177/0x232
[<ffffffff8027a578>] __alloc_pages+0x1fa/0x392
[<ffffffff8029507f>] alloc_pages_current+0xd1/0xd6
[<ffffffff80279ac0>] __get_free_pages+0xe/0x4d
[<ffffffff802ae1b7>] __pollwait+0x5e/0xdf
[<ffffffff8860f2b4>] :nvidia:nv_kern_poll+0x2e/0x73
[<ffffffff802ad949>] do_select+0x308/0x506
[<ffffffff802adced>] core_sys_select+0x1a6/0x254
[<ffffffff802ae0b7>] sys_select+0xb5/0x157
Now I think the main problem is having the filesystem block (and do IO) in
inode reclaim. The problem is that this doesn't get accounted well and
penalizes a random allocator with a big latency spike caused by work
generated from elsewhere.
I think the best idea would be to avoid this. By design if possible, or
by deferring the hard work to an asynchronous context. If the latter,
then the fs would probably want to throttle creation of new work with
queue size of the deferred work, but let's not get into those details.
Anyway, the other obvious thing we looked at is the iprune_mutex which is
causing the cascading blocking. We could turn this into an rwsem to
improve concurrency. It is unreasonable to totally ban all potentially
slow or blocking operations in inode reclaim, so I think this is a cheap
way to get a small improvement.
This doesn't solve the whole problem of course. The process doing inode
reclaim will still take the latency hit, and concurrent processes may end
up contending on filesystem locks. So fs developers should keep these
problems in mind.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
