1. 26 5月, 2011 6 次提交
  2. 01 3月, 2011 2 次提交
  3. 07 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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      fs: icache RCU free inodes · fa0d7e3d
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      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: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      fa0d7e3d
  4. 29 10月, 2010 1 次提交
  5. 05 10月, 2010 2 次提交
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      BKL: Remove BKL from squashfs · 3dbc4b32
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      The BKL is only used in put_super and fill_super, which are both protected
      by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove
      the BKL entirely.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
      3dbc4b32
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      BKL: Explicitly add BKL around get_sb/fill_super · db719222
      Jan Blunck 提交于
      This patch is a preparation necessary to remove the BKL from do_new_mount().
      It explicitly adds calls to lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around
      get_sb/fill_super operations for filesystems that still uses the BKL.
      
      I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside
      do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL
      any more.
      
      do_kern_mount() is already called without the BKL when mounting the rootfs
      and in nfsctl. do_kern_mount() calls vfs_kern_mount(), which is called
      from various places without BKL: simple_pin_fs(), nfs_do_clone_mount()
      through nfs_follow_mountpoint(), afs_mntpt_do_automount() through
      afs_mntpt_follow_link(). Both later functions are actually the filesystems
      follow_link inode operation. vfs_kern_mount() is calling the specified
      get_sb function and lets the filesystem do its job by calling the given
      fill_super function.
      
      Therefore I think it is safe to push down the BKL from the VFS to the
      low-level filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation.
      
      [arnd: do not add the BKL to those file systems that already
             don't use it elsewhere]
      Signed-off-by: NJan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      db719222
  6. 18 5月, 2010 3 次提交
  7. 25 4月, 2010 2 次提交
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  9. 22 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  10. 13 7月, 2009 1 次提交
  11. 12 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      push BKL down into ->put_super · 6cfd0148
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Move BKL into ->put_super from the only caller.  A couple of
      filesystems had trivial enough ->put_super (only kfree and NULLing of
      s_fs_info + stuff in there) to not get any locking: coda, cramfs, efs,
      hugetlbfs, omfs, qnx4, shmem, all others got the full treatment.  Most
      of them probably don't need it, but I'd rather sort that out individually.
      Preferably after all the other BKL pushdowns in that area.
      
      [AV: original used to move lock_super() down as well; these changes are
      removed since we don't do lock_super() at all in generic_shutdown_super()
      now]
      [AV: fuse, btrfs and xfs are known to need no damn BKL, exempt]
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      6cfd0148
  12. 13 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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  16. 05 1月, 2009 1 次提交