kernel_optimize_test/include/linux/mount.h
Dave Hansen 3d733633a6 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: track numbers of writers to mounts
This is the real meat of the entire series.  It actually
implements the tracking of the number of writers to a mount.
However, it causes scalability problems because there can be
hundreds of cpus doing open()/close() on files on the same mnt at
the same time.  Even an atomic_t in the mnt has massive scalaing
problems because the cacheline gets so terribly contended.

This uses a statically-allocated percpu variable.  All want/drop
operations are local to a cpu as long that cpu operates on the same
mount, and there are no writer count imbalances.  Writer count
imbalances happen when a write is taken on one cpu, and released
on another, like when an open/close pair is performed on two

Upon a remount,ro request, all of the data from the percpu
variables is collected (expensive, but very rare) and we determine
if there are any outstanding writers to the mount.

I've written a little benchmark to sit in a loop for a couple of
seconds in several cpus in parallel doing open/write/close loops.

http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/openbench.c

The code in here is a a worst-possible case for this patch.  It
does opens on a _pair_ of files in two different mounts in parallel.
This should cause my code to lose its "operate on the same mount"
optimization completely.  This worst-case scenario causes a 3%
degredation in the benchmark.

I could probably get rid of even this 3%, but it would be more
complex than what I have here, and I think this is getting into
acceptable territory.  In practice, I expect writing more than 3
bytes to a file, as well as disk I/O to mask any effects that this
has.

(To get rid of that 3%, we could have an #defined number of mounts
in the percpu variable.  So, instead of a CPU getting operate only
on percpu data when it accesses only one mount, it could stay on
percpu data when it only accesses N or fewer mounts.)

[AV] merged fix for __clear_mnt_mount() stepping on freed vfsmount

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: 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>
2008-04-19 00:29:27 -04:00

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/*
*
* Definitions for mount interface. This describes the in the kernel build
* linkedlist with mounted filesystems.
*
* Author: Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net>
*
* Version: $Id: mount.h,v 2.0 1996/11/17 16:48:14 mvw Exp mvw $
*
*/
#ifndef _LINUX_MOUNT_H
#define _LINUX_MOUNT_H
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/nodemask.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
struct super_block;
struct vfsmount;
struct dentry;
struct mnt_namespace;
#define MNT_NOSUID 0x01
#define MNT_NODEV 0x02
#define MNT_NOEXEC 0x04
#define MNT_NOATIME 0x08
#define MNT_NODIRATIME 0x10
#define MNT_RELATIME 0x20
#define MNT_SHRINKABLE 0x100
#define MNT_IMBALANCED_WRITE_COUNT 0x200 /* just for debugging */
#define MNT_SHARED 0x1000 /* if the vfsmount is a shared mount */
#define MNT_UNBINDABLE 0x2000 /* if the vfsmount is a unbindable mount */
#define MNT_PNODE_MASK 0x3000 /* propagation flag mask */
struct vfsmount {
struct list_head mnt_hash;
struct vfsmount *mnt_parent; /* fs we are mounted on */
struct dentry *mnt_mountpoint; /* dentry of mountpoint */
struct dentry *mnt_root; /* root of the mounted tree */
struct super_block *mnt_sb; /* pointer to superblock */
struct list_head mnt_mounts; /* list of children, anchored here */
struct list_head mnt_child; /* and going through their mnt_child */
int mnt_flags;
/* 4 bytes hole on 64bits arches */
char *mnt_devname; /* Name of device e.g. /dev/dsk/hda1 */
struct list_head mnt_list;
struct list_head mnt_expire; /* link in fs-specific expiry list */
struct list_head mnt_share; /* circular list of shared mounts */
struct list_head mnt_slave_list;/* list of slave mounts */
struct list_head mnt_slave; /* slave list entry */
struct vfsmount *mnt_master; /* slave is on master->mnt_slave_list */
struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns; /* containing namespace */
/*
* We put mnt_count & mnt_expiry_mark at the end of struct vfsmount
* to let these frequently modified fields in a separate cache line
* (so that reads of mnt_flags wont ping-pong on SMP machines)
*/
atomic_t mnt_count;
int mnt_expiry_mark; /* true if marked for expiry */
int mnt_pinned;
int mnt_ghosts;
/*
* This value is not stable unless all of the mnt_writers[] spinlocks
* are held, and all mnt_writer[]s on this mount have 0 as their ->count
*/
atomic_t __mnt_writers;
};
static inline struct vfsmount *mntget(struct vfsmount *mnt)
{
if (mnt)
atomic_inc(&mnt->mnt_count);
return mnt;
}
extern int mnt_want_write(struct vfsmount *mnt);
extern void mnt_drop_write(struct vfsmount *mnt);
extern void mntput_no_expire(struct vfsmount *mnt);
extern void mnt_pin(struct vfsmount *mnt);
extern void mnt_unpin(struct vfsmount *mnt);
extern int __mnt_is_readonly(struct vfsmount *mnt);
static inline void mntput(struct vfsmount *mnt)
{
if (mnt) {
mnt->mnt_expiry_mark = 0;
mntput_no_expire(mnt);
}
}
extern void free_vfsmnt(struct vfsmount *mnt);
extern struct vfsmount *alloc_vfsmnt(const char *name);
extern struct vfsmount *do_kern_mount(const char *fstype, int flags,
const char *name, void *data);
struct file_system_type;
extern struct vfsmount *vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type,
int flags, const char *name,
void *data);
struct nameidata;
extern int do_add_mount(struct vfsmount *newmnt, struct nameidata *nd,
int mnt_flags, struct list_head *fslist);
extern void mark_mounts_for_expiry(struct list_head *mounts);
extern spinlock_t vfsmount_lock;
extern dev_t name_to_dev_t(char *name);
#endif
#endif /* _LINUX_MOUNT_H */