Re: [PATCH 10/12] fscache: Fix cookie key hashing

[Jeff Layton]

On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 22:46 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> The current hash algorithm used for hashing cookie keys is really bad,
> producing almost no dispersion (after a test kernel build, ~30000 files
> were split over just 18 out of the 32768 hash buckets).
> 
> Borrow the full_name_hash() hash function into fscache to do the hashing
> for cookie keys and, in the future, volume keys.
> 
> I don't want to use full_name_hash() as-is because I want the hash value to
> be consistent across arches and over time as the hash value produced may
> get used on disk.
> 
> I can also optimise parts of it away as the key will always be a padded
> array of aligned 32-bit words.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 

What happens when this patch encounters a cache that was built before
it? Do you need to couple this with some sort of global cache
invalidation or rehashing event?

>  fs/fscache/cookie.c   |   14 +-------------
>  fs/fscache/internal.h |    2 ++
>  fs/fscache/main.c     |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/fscache/cookie.c b/fs/fscache/cookie.c
> index ec9bce33085f..2558814193e9 100644
> --- a/fs/fscache/cookie.c
> +++ b/fs/fscache/cookie.c
> @@ -87,10 +87,8 @@ void fscache_free_cookie(struct fscache_cookie *cookie)
>  static int fscache_set_key(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
>  			   const void *index_key, size_t index_key_len)
>  {
> -	unsigned long long h;
>  	u32 *buf;
>  	int bufs;
> -	int i;
>  
>  	bufs = DIV_ROUND_UP(index_key_len, sizeof(*buf));
>  
> @@ -104,17 +102,7 @@ static int fscache_set_key(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
>  	}
>  
>  	memcpy(buf, index_key, index_key_len);
> -
> -	/* Calculate a hash and combine this with the length in the first word
> -	 * or first half word
> -	 */
> -	h = (unsigned long)cookie->parent;
> -	h += index_key_len + cookie->type;
> -
> -	for (i = 0; i < bufs; i++)
> -		h += buf[i];
> -
> -	cookie->key_hash = h ^ (h >> 32);
> +	cookie->key_hash = fscache_hash(0, buf, bufs);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/fs/fscache/internal.h b/fs/fscache/internal.h
> index 200082cafdda..a49136c63e4b 100644
> --- a/fs/fscache/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/fscache/internal.h
> @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ extern struct workqueue_struct *fscache_object_wq;
>  extern struct workqueue_struct *fscache_op_wq;
>  DECLARE_PER_CPU(wait_queue_head_t, fscache_object_cong_wait);
>  
> +extern unsigned int fscache_hash(unsigned int salt, unsigned int *data, unsigned int n);
> +
>  static inline bool fscache_object_congested(void)
>  {
>  	return workqueue_congested(WORK_CPU_UNBOUND, fscache_object_wq);
> diff --git a/fs/fscache/main.c b/fs/fscache/main.c
> index c1e6cc9091aa..4207f98e405f 100644
> --- a/fs/fscache/main.c
> +++ b/fs/fscache/main.c
> @@ -93,6 +93,45 @@ static struct ctl_table fscache_sysctls_root[] = {
>  };
>  #endif
>  
> +/*
> + * Mixing scores (in bits) for (7,20):
> + * Input delta: 1-bit      2-bit
> + * 1 round:     330.3     9201.6
> + * 2 rounds:   1246.4    25475.4
> + * 3 rounds:   1907.1    31295.1
> + * 4 rounds:   2042.3    31718.6
> + * Perfect:    2048      31744
> + *            (32*64)   (32*31/2 * 64)
> + */
> +#define HASH_MIX(x, y, a)	\
> +	(	x ^= (a),	\
> +	y ^= x,	x = rol32(x, 7),\
> +	x += y,	y = rol32(y,20),\
> +	y *= 9			)
> +
> +static inline unsigned int fold_hash(unsigned long x, unsigned long y)
> +{
> +	/* Use arch-optimized multiply if one exists */
> +	return __hash_32(y ^ __hash_32(x));
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Generate a hash.  This is derived from full_name_hash(), but we want to be
> + * sure it is arch independent and that it doesn't change as bits of the
> + * computed hash value might appear on disk.  The caller also guarantees that
> + * the hashed data will be a series of aligned 32-bit words.
> + */
> +unsigned int fscache_hash(unsigned int salt, unsigned int *data, unsigned int n)
> +{
> +	unsigned int a, x = 0, y = salt;
> +
> +	for (; n; n--) {
> +		a = *data++;
> +		HASH_MIX(x, y, a);
> +	}
> +	return fold_hash(x, y);
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * initialise the fs caching module
>   */
> 
> 

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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>