[PATCH] fs: inode per-cpu last_ino allocator

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Sep 30 2010 - 06:22:27 EST


Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 Ã 01:14 -0700, Andrew Morton a Ãcrit :

> Perhaps
>
> WARN_ON_ONCE(preemptible());
>
> if we had a developer-only version of WARN_ON_ONCE, which we don't.

Or just use a regular PER_CPU variable, even on !SMP, and get preempt
safe implementation.

What do you think of following patch, on top of current linux-2.6 tree ?

Thanks

[PATCH] fs: inode per-cpu last_ino allocator

new_inode() dirties a contended cache line to get increasing
inode numbers.

Solve this problem by providing to each cpu a per_cpu variable,
feeded by the shared last_ino, but once every 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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/inode.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 8646433..122914e 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -624,6 +624,43 @@ void inode_add_to_lists(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inode_add_to_lists);

+#define LAST_INO_BATCH 1024
+
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, last_ino);
+
+static noinline unsigned int last_ino_get(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
@@ -638,12 +675,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inode_add_to_lists);
*/
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);
@@ -652,7 +683,7 @@ struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
if (inode) {
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
__inode_add_to_lists(sb, NULL, inode);
- inode->i_ino = ++last_ino;
+ inode->i_ino = last_ino_get();
inode->i_state = 0;
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
}


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/