Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: use ida to get inode number

["zhengbin (A)" <zhengbin13@huawei.com>]

On 2019/11/21 12:52, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, zhengbin (A) wrote:
>> On 2019/11/20 23:45, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:23:18PM +0800, zhengbin wrote:
>>>> I have tried to change last_ino type to unsigned long, while this was
>>>> rejected, see details on https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11023915.
>>> Did you end up trying sbitmap?
>> Maybe sbitmap is not a good solution, max_inodes of tmpfs are controlled by mount options--nrinodes,
>>
>> which can be modified by remountfs(bigger or smaller), as the comment of function sbitmap_resize says:
>>
>>  * Doesn't reallocate anything. It's up to the caller to ensure that the new
>>  * depth doesn't exceed the depth that the sb was initialized with.
>>
>> We can modify this to meet the growing requirements, there will still be questions as follows:
>>
>> 1. tmpfs is a ram filesystem, we need to allocate sbitmap memory for sbinfo->max_inodes(while this maybe huge)
>>
>> 2.If remountfs changes  max_inode, we have to deal with it, while this may take a long time
>>
>> (bigger: we need to free the old sbitmap memory, allocate new memory, copy the old sbitmap to new sbitmap
>>
>> smaller: How do we deal with it?ie: we use sb->map[inode number/8] to find the sbitmap, we need to change the exist
>>
>> inode numbers?while this maybe used by userspace application.)
>>
>>> What I think is fundamentally wrong with this patch is that you've found a
>>> problem in get_next_ino() and decided to use a different scheme for this
>>> one filesystem, leaving every other filesystem which uses get_next_ino()
>>> facing the same problem.
>>>
>>> That could be acceptable if you explained why tmpfs is fundamentally
>>> different from all the other filesystems that use get_next_ino(), but
>>> you haven't (and I don't think there is such a difference.  eg pipes,
>>> autofs and ipc mqueue could all have the same problem.
>> tmpfs is same with all the other filesystems that use get_next_ino(), but we need to solve this problem one by one.
>>
>> If tmpfs is ok, we can modify the other filesystems too. Besides, I do not  recommend all file systems share the same
>>
>> global variable, for performance impact consideration.
>>
>>> There are some other problems I noticed, but they're not worth bringing
>>> up until this fundamental design choice is justified.
>> Agree, thanks.
> Just a rushed FYI without looking at your patch or comments.
>
> Internally (in Google) we do rely on good tmpfs inode numbers more
> than on those of other get_next_ino() filesystems, and carry a patch
> to mm/shmem.c for it to use 64-bit inode numbers (and separate inode
> number space for each superblock) - essentially,
>
> 	ino = sbinfo->next_ino++;
> 	/* Avoid 0 in the low 32 bits: might appear deleted */
> 	if (unlikely((unsigned int)ino == 0))
> 		ino = sbinfo->next_ino++;
>
> Which I think would be faster, and need less memory, than IDA.
> But whether that is of general interest, or of interest to you,
> depends upon how prevalent 32-bit executables built without
> __FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 still are these days.

So how google think about this? inode number > 32-bit, but 32-bit executables

cat not handle this? "separate inode number space for each superblock" can reduce the

probability, but still can not solve it.

>
> Hugh