kernel_optimize_test/include/linux/file.h
Dipankar Sarma 529bf6be5c [PATCH] fix file counting
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant
performance difference on kernbench.  Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc.

The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched
freeing.  For scalability reasons, file accounting was
constructor/destructor based.  This meant that nr_files was decremented
only when the object was removed from the slab cache.  This is susceptible
to slab fragmentation.  With RCU based file structure, consequent batched
freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up
with a very fragmented slab -

llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
587730  0       758844

At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache.  The following
patch I fixes this problem.

This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock.
Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all
accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api.  In the sysctl handler for
nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user.

Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to
inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:14:01 -08:00

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/*
* Wrapper functions for accessing the file_struct fd array.
*/
#ifndef __LINUX_FILE_H
#define __LINUX_FILE_H
#include <asm/atomic.h>
#include <linux/posix_types.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
/*
* The default fd array needs to be at least BITS_PER_LONG,
* as this is the granularity returned by copy_fdset().
*/
#define NR_OPEN_DEFAULT BITS_PER_LONG
struct fdtable {
unsigned int max_fds;
int max_fdset;
int next_fd;
struct file ** fd; /* current fd array */
fd_set *close_on_exec;
fd_set *open_fds;
struct rcu_head rcu;
struct files_struct *free_files;
struct fdtable *next;
};
/*
* Open file table structure
*/
struct files_struct {
atomic_t count;
struct fdtable *fdt;
struct fdtable fdtab;
fd_set close_on_exec_init;
fd_set open_fds_init;
struct file * fd_array[NR_OPEN_DEFAULT];
spinlock_t file_lock; /* Protects concurrent writers. Nests inside tsk->alloc_lock */
};
#define files_fdtable(files) (rcu_dereference((files)->fdt))
extern void FASTCALL(__fput(struct file *));
extern void FASTCALL(fput(struct file *));
static inline void fput_light(struct file *file, int fput_needed)
{
if (unlikely(fput_needed))
fput(file);
}
extern struct file * FASTCALL(fget(unsigned int fd));
extern struct file * FASTCALL(fget_light(unsigned int fd, int *fput_needed));
extern void FASTCALL(set_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd, int flag));
extern void put_filp(struct file *);
extern int get_unused_fd(void);
extern void FASTCALL(put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd));
struct kmem_cache;
extern struct file ** alloc_fd_array(int);
extern void free_fd_array(struct file **, int);
extern fd_set *alloc_fdset(int);
extern void free_fdset(fd_set *, int);
extern int expand_files(struct files_struct *, int nr);
extern void free_fdtable(struct fdtable *fdt);
extern void __init files_defer_init(void);
static inline struct file * fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd)
{
struct file * file = NULL;
struct fdtable *fdt = files_fdtable(files);
if (fd < fdt->max_fds)
file = rcu_dereference(fdt->fd[fd]);
return file;
}
/*
* Check whether the specified fd has an open file.
*/
#define fcheck(fd) fcheck_files(current->files, fd)
extern void FASTCALL(fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file * file));
struct task_struct;
struct files_struct *get_files_struct(struct task_struct *);
void FASTCALL(put_files_struct(struct files_struct *fs));
#endif /* __LINUX_FILE_H */