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    xfs: convert buffer cache hash to rbtree · 74f75a0c
    Dave Chinner 提交于
    The buffer cache hash is showing typical hash scalability problems.
    In large scale testing the number of cached items growing far larger
    than the hash can efficiently handle. Hence we need to move to a
    self-scaling cache indexing mechanism.
    
    I have selected rbtrees for indexing becuse they can have O(log n)
    search scalability, and insert and remove cost is not excessive,
    even on large trees. Hence we should be able to cache large numbers
    of buffers without incurring the excessive cache miss search
    penalties that the hash is imposing on us.
    
    To ensure we still have parallel access to the cache, we need
    multiple trees. Rather than hashing the buffers by disk address to
    select a tree, it seems more sensible to separate trees by typical
    access patterns. Most operations use buffers from within a single AG
    at a time, so rather than searching lots of different lists,
    separate the buffer indexes out into per-AG rbtrees. This means that
    searches during metadata operation have a much higher chance of
    hitting cache resident nodes, and that updates of the tree are less
    likely to disturb trees being accessed on other CPUs doing
    independent operations.
    Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Reviewed-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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