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fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator

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new_inode() dirties a contended cache line to get increasing
inode numbers. This limits performance on workloads that cause
significant parallel inode allocation.

Solve this problem by using a per_cpu variable fed by the shared
last_ino in batches of 1024 allocations.  This reduces contention on
the shared last_ino, and give same spreading ino numbers than before
(i.e. same wraparound after 2^32 allocations).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Eric Dumazet 2010-10-23 11:18:01 -04:00 committed by Al Viro
parent 7de9c6ee3e
commit f991bd2e14
1 changed files with 38 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -717,6 +717,43 @@ static struct inode *find_inode_fast(struct super_block *sb,
return NULL;
}
/*
* Each cpu owns a range of LAST_INO_BATCH numbers.
* 'shared_last_ino' is dirtied only once out of LAST_INO_BATCH allocations,
* to renew the exhausted range.
*
* This does not significantly increase overflow rate because every CPU can
* consume at most LAST_INO_BATCH-1 unused inode numbers. So there is
* NR_CPUS*(LAST_INO_BATCH-1) wastage. At 4096 and 1024, this is ~0.1% of the
* 2^32 range, and is a worst-case. Even a 50% wastage would only increase
* overflow rate by 2x, which does not seem too significant.
*
* On a 32bit, non LFS stat() call, glibc will generate an EOVERFLOW
* error if st_ino won't fit in target struct field. Use 32bit counter
* here to attempt to avoid that.
*/
#define LAST_INO_BATCH 1024
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, last_ino);
static unsigned int get_next_ino(void)
{
unsigned int *p = &get_cpu_var(last_ino);
unsigned int res = *p;
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
if (unlikely((res & (LAST_INO_BATCH-1)) == 0)) {
static atomic_t shared_last_ino;
int next = atomic_add_return(LAST_INO_BATCH, &shared_last_ino);
res = next - LAST_INO_BATCH;
}
#endif
*p = ++res;
put_cpu_var(last_ino);
return res;
}
/**
* new_inode - obtain an inode
* @sb: superblock
@ -731,12 +768,6 @@ static struct inode *find_inode_fast(struct super_block *sb,
*/
struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
{
/*
* On a 32bit, non LFS stat() call, glibc will generate an EOVERFLOW
* error if st_ino won't fit in target struct field. Use 32bit counter
* here to attempt to avoid that.
*/
static unsigned int last_ino;
struct inode *inode;
spin_lock_prefetch(&inode_lock);
@ -745,7 +776,7 @@ struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
if (inode) {
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
__inode_sb_list_add(inode);
inode->i_ino = ++last_ino;
inode->i_ino = get_next_ino();
inode->i_state = 0;
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
}