xfs: convert inode cache lookups to use RCU locking
With delayed logging greatly increasing the sustained parallelism of inode operations, the inode cache locking is showing significant read vs write contention when inode reclaim runs at the same time as lookups. There is also a lot more write lock acquistions than there are read locks (4:1 ratio) so the read locking is not really buying us much in the way of parallelism. To avoid the read vs write contention, change the cache to use RCU locking on the read side. To avoid needing to RCU free every single inode, use the built in slab RCU freeing mechanism. This requires us to be able to detect lookups of freed inodes, so enѕure that ever freed inode has an inode number of zero and the XFS_IRECLAIM flag set. We already check the XFS_IRECLAIM flag in cache hit lookup path, but also add a check for a zero inode number as well. We canthen convert all the read locking lockups to use RCU read side locking and hence remove all read side locking. Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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