Nick Piggin fa0d7e3de6 fs: icache RCU free inodes ... RCU free the struct inode. This will allow: - Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must. - sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking. - Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code - Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the page lock to follow page->mapping. The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts kicking over, this increases to about 20%. In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller. The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking, so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I doubt it will be a problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>		2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
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budget.c
commit.c
compress.c
debug.c	Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6	2010-10-22 16:34:03 -07:00
debug.h
dir.c	new helper: ihold()	2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00
file.c
find.c
gc.c
io.c
ioctl.c
journal.c
Kconfig
key.h
log.c
lprops.c
lpt.c
lpt_commit.c
Makefile
master.c
misc.h
orphan.c
recovery.c
replay.c	UBIFS: do not allocate unneeded scan buffer	2010-10-21 11:15:19 +03:00
sb.c
scan.c
shrinker.c
super.c	fs: icache RCU free inodes	2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
tnc.c
tnc_commit.c
tnc_misc.c
ubifs-media.h
ubifs.h
xattr.c