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author | Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> | 2006-03-08 05:55:35 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-08 22:14:01 (GMT) |
commit | 529bf6be5c04f2e869d07bfdb122e9fd98ade714 (patch) | |
tree | 38514bb3941c4ac2a79266e4483663b79efa2f22 /fs | |
parent | 21a1ea9eb40411d4ee29448c53b9e4c0654d6ceb (diff) | |
download | linux-529bf6be5c04f2e869d07bfdb122e9fd98ade714.tar.xz |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | fs/file_table.c | 87 |
2 files changed, 56 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index a173bba..11dc830 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1736,7 +1736,7 @@ void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long mempages) SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL); filp_cachep = kmem_cache_create("filp", sizeof(struct file), 0, - SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, filp_ctor, filp_dtor); + SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL); dcache_init(mempages); inode_init(mempages); diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index 768b581..44fabea 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 1997 David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu) */ +#include <linux/config.h> #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/file.h> @@ -19,52 +20,67 @@ #include <linux/capability.h> #include <linux/cdev.h> #include <linux/fsnotify.h> +#include <linux/sysctl.h> +#include <linux/percpu_counter.h> + +#include <asm/atomic.h> /* sysctl tunables... */ struct files_stat_struct files_stat = { .max_files = NR_FILE }; -EXPORT_SYMBOL(files_stat); /* Needed by unix.o */ - /* public. Not pretty! */ - __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(files_lock); +__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(files_lock); -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(filp_count_lock); +static struct percpu_counter nr_files __cacheline_aligned_in_smp; -/* slab constructors and destructors are called from arbitrary - * context and must be fully threaded - use a local spinlock - * to protect files_stat.nr_files - */ -void filp_ctor(void *objp, struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long cflags) +static inline void file_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head) { - if ((cflags & (SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY|SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR)) == - SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR) { - unsigned long flags; - spin_lock_irqsave(&filp_count_lock, flags); - files_stat.nr_files++; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&filp_count_lock, flags); - } + struct file *f = container_of(head, struct file, f_u.fu_rcuhead); + kmem_cache_free(filp_cachep, f); } -void filp_dtor(void *objp, struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long dflags) +static inline void file_free(struct file *f) { - unsigned long flags; - spin_lock_irqsave(&filp_count_lock, flags); - files_stat.nr_files--; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&filp_count_lock, flags); + percpu_counter_dec(&nr_files); + call_rcu(&f->f_u.fu_rcuhead, file_free_rcu); } -static inline void file_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head) +/* + * Return the total number of open files in the system + */ +static int get_nr_files(void) { - struct file *f = container_of(head, struct file, f_u.fu_rcuhead); - kmem_cache_free(filp_cachep, f); + return percpu_counter_read_positive(&nr_files); } -static inline void file_free(struct file *f) +/* + * Return the maximum number of open files in the system + */ +int get_max_files(void) { - call_rcu(&f->f_u.fu_rcuhead, file_free_rcu); + return files_stat.max_files; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_max_files); + +/* + * Handle nr_files sysctl + */ +#if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL) && defined(CONFIG_PROC_FS) +int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + files_stat.nr_files = get_nr_files(); + return proc_dointvec(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); +} +#else +int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + return -ENOSYS; +} +#endif /* Find an unused file structure and return a pointer to it. * Returns NULL, if there are no more free file structures or @@ -78,14 +94,20 @@ struct file *get_empty_filp(void) /* * Privileged users can go above max_files */ - if (files_stat.nr_files >= files_stat.max_files && - !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) - goto over; + if (get_nr_files() >= files_stat.max_files && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { + /* + * percpu_counters are inaccurate. Do an expensive check before + * we go and fail. + */ + if (percpu_counter_sum(&nr_files) >= files_stat.max_files) + goto over; + } f = kmem_cache_alloc(filp_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); if (f == NULL) goto fail; + percpu_counter_inc(&nr_files); memset(f, 0, sizeof(*f)); if (security_file_alloc(f)) goto fail_sec; @@ -101,10 +123,10 @@ struct file *get_empty_filp(void) over: /* Ran out of filps - report that */ - if (files_stat.nr_files > old_max) { + if (get_nr_files() > old_max) { printk(KERN_INFO "VFS: file-max limit %d reached\n", - files_stat.max_files); - old_max = files_stat.nr_files; + get_max_files()); + old_max = get_nr_files(); } goto fail; @@ -276,4 +298,5 @@ void __init files_init(unsigned long mempages) if (files_stat.max_files < NR_FILE) files_stat.max_files = NR_FILE; files_defer_init(); + percpu_counter_init(&nr_files); } |