[PATCH 0/3] kernfs: Introduce separate rwsem to protect inode

[Imran Khan]

This change set is consolidating the changes discussed and/or mentioned
in [1] and [2]. I have not received any feedback about any of the
patches included in this change set, so I am rebasing them on current
linux-next tip and bringing them all in one place.

As mentioned in [1], since changing per-fs kernfs_rwsem into a hashed
rwsem is not working for all scenarios, PATCH-1 here tries to address
the same issue with the help of another newly introduced per-fs rwsem.
PATCH-2 and PATCH-3 are basically resend of PATCH-1 and PATCH-2
respectively in [2].

It would be really helpful if I could get some feedback about this
changeset so that we can reduce the kernfs_rwsem contention and make
sysfs access more scalable for large-scale systems.

The patches in this change set are as follows:

PATCH-1: kernfs: Introduce separate rwsem to protect inode attributes.

PATCH-2: kernfs: Use a per-fs rwsem to protect per-fs list of
kernfs_super_info.

PATCH-3: kernfs: change kernfs_rename_lock into a read-write lock.

Imran Khan (3):
  kernfs: Introduce separate rwsem to protect inode attributes.
  Use a per-fs rwsem to protect per-fs list of kernfs_super_info.
  kernfs: change kernfs_rename_lock into a read-write lock.

 fs/kernfs/dir.c             | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------
 fs/kernfs/file.c            |  2 ++
 fs/kernfs/inode.c           | 16 ++++++++--------
 fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h |  2 ++
 fs/kernfs/mount.c           |  8 ++++----
 5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)


base-commit: 7f7a8831520f12a3cf894b0627641fad33971221

[1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/74969b22-e0b6-30bd-a1f0-132f4b8485cf@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220810111017.2267160-1-imran.f.khan@xxxxxxxxxx/
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