* [patch] Per-sb s_all_inodes list
@ 2005-01-10 21:19 Mike Waychison
2005-01-11 1:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mike Waychison @ 2005-01-10 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux kernel; +Cc: viro
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The following patch (against 2.6.10) adds a per super_block list of all
inodes.
Releasing a super_block requires walking all inodes for the given
superblock and releasing them. Currently, inodes are found on one of
four lists:
- global list inode_in_use
- global list inode_unused
- per-sb ->s_dirty
- per-sb ->s_io
The second list, inode_unused can potentially be quite large.
Unfortunately, it cannot be made per-sb as it is the global LRU list
used for inode cache reduction under memory pressure.
When unmounting a single filesystem, profiling shows dramatic time spent
walking inode_unused. This because very noticeble when one is
unmounting a decently sized tree of filesystems.
The proposed solution is to create a new list per-sb, that contains all
inodes allocated. It is maintained under the inode_lock for the sake of
simplicity, but this may prove unneccesary, and may be better done with
another global or per-sb lock.
Unfortunately, this patch also adds another list_head to each struct
inode, but failing other suggestions, I don't see how else to do this.
The following script was used to profile:
- -----------
#!/bin/sh
LOOP=100
# SETUP
for test in `seq 1 $LOOP` ; do
mkdir /tmp/test$test
mount -t tmpfs test$test /tmp/test$test
for i in `seq 1 10` ; do
mkdir /tmp/test$test/$i
mount -t tmpfs test$test-$i /tmp/test$test/$i
done
done
# PROFILE
/usr/local/sbin/readprofile -r
for test in `seq 1 $LOOP` ; do
umount -l /tmp/test$test
done
/usr/local/sbin/readprofile | sort -nr +2
# CLEANUP
for test in `seq 1 $LOOP` ; do
rmdir /tmp/test$test
done
- -----------
Before applying this patch, from a fresh boot:
- -----------
4207 poll_idle 65.7344
3611 invalidate_list 20.5170
121 kmem_cache_free 0.9453
48 kfree 0.3000
15 kernel_map_pages 0.1339
25 seq_escape 0.1302
8 _atomic_dec_and_lock 0.1000
30 __d_path 0.0938
8 m_start 0.0625
5 poison_obj 0.0625
1 obj_dbghead 0.0625
15 d_path 0.0625
5 page_remove_rmap 0.0521
10 kmap_atomic 0.0521
13 seq_path 0.0508
4 seq_puts 0.0374
13 show_vfsmnt 0.0369
1 proc_follow_link 0.0312
1 fput 0.0312
3 change_page_attr 0.0268
1 system_call 0.0227
2 strnlen_user 0.0208
1 shmem_destroy_inode 0.0208
1 seq_putc 0.0208
11 do_anonymous_page 0.0202
2 pte_alloc_one 0.0179
2 handle_IRQ_event 0.0179
2 d_genocide 0.0179
2 sysenter_past_esp 0.0171
2 de_put 0.0156
1 page_waitqueue 0.0156
1 __mntput 0.0156
1 file_kill 0.0156
2 iput 0.0139
2 write_profile 0.0138
1 __vm_stat_account 0.0125
1 put_filesystem 0.0125
1 profile_handoff_task 0.0125
1 path_release 0.0125
1 name_to_int 0.0125
3 __pagevec_lru_add_active 0.0117
2 __copy_user_intel 0.0114
2 flush_tlb_page 0.0104
1 __user_walk 0.0104
1 find_vma_prev 0.0104
1 find_vma 0.0104
1 find_get_page 0.0104
1 fget 0.0104
1 d_lookup 0.0104
2 __do_softirq 0.0096
3 release_task 0.0089
1 set_page_dirty 0.0089
1 page_add_file_rmap 0.0089
8 do_wp_page 0.0083
2 __might_sleep 0.0083
1 sys_read 0.0078
3 release_pages 0.0075
7 copy_page_range 0.0072
3 clear_page_tables 0.0069
2 vfs_read 0.0069
1 zap_pmd_range 0.0069
1 sync_inodes_sb 0.0069
1 page_add_anon_rmap 0.0069
1 finish_task_switch 0.0069
1 filp_close 0.0069
6 zap_pte_range 0.0067
1 shrink_dcache_anon 0.0063
1 remove_vm_struct 0.0063
1 dup_task_struct 0.0063
1 deactivate_super 0.0063
5 do_no_page 0.0060
3 handle_mm_fault 0.0059
1 kmem_cache_alloc 0.0057
1 dnotify_flush 0.0057
1 generic_fillattr 0.0052
4 get_signal_to_deliver 0.0049
1 proc_lookup 0.0048
1 invalidate_inodes 0.0048
1 do_sync_read 0.0048
2 cache_alloc_debugcheck_after 0.0045
1 proc_pid_make_inode 0.0045
1 writeback_inodes 0.0042
1 scsi_end_request 0.0042
8 do_page_fault 0.0041
1 pte_alloc_map 0.0035
8299 total 0.0033
3 copy_mm 0.0032
1 old_mmap 0.0031
1 __d_lookup 0.0031
1 cap_vm_enough_memory 0.0031
2 sync_sb_inodes 0.0027
1 prio_tree_insert 0.0026
2 vma_adjust 0.0025
1 vfs_quota_sync 0.0023
1 check_poison_obj 0.0021
2 scsi_request_fn 0.0019
1 try_to_wake_up 0.0015
1 number 0.0015
3 exit_notify 0.0013
1 filemap_nopage 0.0011
2 link_path_walk 0.0006
1 do_mmap_pgoff 0.0005
- ------------
Before applying the patch, but after a 'find / > /dev/null':
- ------------
21489 poll_idle 335.7656
21820 invalidate_list 123.9773
164 kmem_cache_free 1.2812
95 _atomic_dec_and_lock 1.1875
110 de_put 0.8594
411 __sync_single_inode 0.8027
131 proc_lookup 0.6298
70 kfree 0.4375
153 sync_sb_inodes 0.2079
23 kernel_map_pages 0.2054
41 writeback_inodes 0.1708
39 __d_path 0.1219
14 m_start 0.1094
3 wake_up_inode 0.0938
9 seq_puts 0.0841
16 seq_escape 0.0833
18 d_path 0.0750
25 show_vfsmnt 0.0710
5 poison_obj 0.0625
1 zone_statistics 0.0625
13 scsi_end_request 0.0542
13 seq_path 0.0508
4 bit_waitqueue 0.0500
9 kmap_atomic 0.0469
2 system_call 0.0455
4 find_get_page 0.0417
6 kmem_cache_alloc 0.0341
1 writeback_acquire 0.0312
1 pmd_ctor 0.0312
4 finish_task_switch 0.0278
2 page_remove_rmap 0.0208
1 m_next 0.0208
1 find_task_by_pid_type 0.0208
1 eventpoll_init_file 0.0208
1 blkdev_writepage 0.0208
9 __mark_inode_dirty 0.0194
6 release_task 0.0179
2 change_page_attr 0.0179
44876 total 0.0177
3 __copy_user_intel 0.0170
9 do_anonymous_page 0.0165
1 pagevec_lookup_tag 0.0156
1 kmem_flagcheck 0.0156
2 find_get_pages_tag 0.0139
2 write_profile 0.0138
3 fn_hash_lookup 0.0125
2 dispose_list 0.0125
1 __read_page_state 0.0125
1 current_kernel_time 0.0125
2 idr_remove 0.0114
2 flush_tlb_page 0.0104
1 vm_acct_memory 0.0104
1 pid_base_iput 0.0104
1 find_vma 0.0104
1 bio_destructor 0.0104
10 do_wp_page 0.0104
5 handle_mm_fault 0.0098
3 generic_shutdown_super 0.0094
1 strncpy_from_user 0.0089
1 set_page_dirty 0.0089
1 prio_tree_replace 0.0089
17 do_page_fault 0.0087
1 sysenter_past_esp 0.0085
2 __might_sleep 0.0083
7 zap_pte_range 0.0078
1 unmap_page_range 0.0078
1 lru_cache_add_active 0.0078
1 flush_thread 0.0078
1 del_timer 0.0078
4 cache_reap 0.0076
2 sub_remove 0.0074
1 skb_release_data 0.0069
1 rt_hash_code 0.0069
1 page_add_anon_rmap 0.0069
1 iput 0.0069
2 __d_lookup 0.0063
1 follow_mount 0.0063
1 deactivate_super 0.0063
4 seq_read 0.0060
1 fsync_super 0.0052
5 copy_page_range 0.0051
2 release_pages 0.0050
4 do_no_page 0.0048
2 do_page_cache_readahead 0.0048
1 locks_remove_flock 0.0048
2 prune_dcache 0.0046
2 cache_alloc_debugcheck_after 0.0045
1 sys_mmap2 0.0045
1 shmem_delete_inode 0.0045
2 dput 0.0042
2 check_poison_obj 0.0042
1 rb_insert_color 0.0039
1 __pagevec_lru_add_active 0.0039
1 __find_get_block 0.0039
1 umount_tree 0.0037
1 vfs_read 0.0035
1 pte_alloc_map 0.0035
2 ahd_linux_isr 0.0033
1 generic_delete_inode 0.0031
1 cap_vm_enough_memory 0.0031
1 profile_hit 0.0030
1 mempool_alloc 0.0028
1 __fput 0.0028
1 path_lookup 0.0027
1 nf_hook_slow 0.0027
1 clear_inode 0.0027
2 get_signal_to_deliver 0.0025
1 exec_mmap 0.0024
2 mpage_writepages 0.0021
1 unmap_vmas 0.0017
1 try_to_wake_up 0.0015
1 udp_v4_mcast_deliver 0.0014
3 exit_notify 0.0013
1 vma_adjust 0.0012
1 copy_mm 0.0011
1 ext3_do_update_inode 0.0010
1 load_elf_binary 0.0003
- ------------
After applying the patch, from a fresh boot:
- ------------
614 poll_idle 9.5938
150 kmem_cache_free 1.1719
39 kfree 0.2437
26 kernel_map_pages 0.2321
21 seq_escape 0.1094
32 __d_path 0.1000
21 d_path 0.0875
15 kmap_atomic 0.0781
8 seq_puts 0.0748
17 seq_path 0.0664
5 _atomic_dec_and_lock 0.0625
4 __read_page_state 0.0500
17 show_vfsmnt 0.0483
6 m_start 0.0469
3 poison_obj 0.0375
1 fput 0.0312
3 pte_alloc_one 0.0268
3 page_add_file_rmap 0.0268
3 change_page_attr 0.0268
4 __copy_user_intel 0.0227
2 page_remove_rmap 0.0208
1 seq_putc 0.0208
2 sysenter_past_esp 0.0171
1 __wake_up_bit 0.0156
5 release_task 0.0149
2 sys_readlink 0.0139
2 write_profile 0.0138
7 handle_mm_fault 0.0137
7 do_anonymous_page 0.0129
5 release_pages 0.0125
1 mounts_release 0.0125
1 inode_times_differ 0.0125
1 current_kernel_time 0.0125
21 do_page_fault 0.0108
2 flush_tlb_page 0.0104
1 strlcpy 0.0104
1 strncpy_from_user 0.0089
1 prio_tree_replace 0.0089
7 do_no_page 0.0084
8 do_wp_page 0.0083
1 __copy_to_user_ll 0.0078
1 anon_vma_unlink 0.0078
2 pte_alloc_map 0.0069
1 iput 0.0069
1 finish_task_switch 0.0069
1 filp_close 0.0069
1 d_rehash 0.0069
6 zap_pte_range 0.0067
2 setup_sigcontext 0.0063
2 __d_lookup 0.0063
1 sched_migrate_task 0.0063
1 dnotify_parent 0.0063
1 dispose_list 0.0063
2 free_hot_cold_page 0.0057
1 kmem_cache_alloc 0.0057
1 free_pages_and_swap_cache 0.0057
1 vma_prio_tree_add 0.0052
1 proc_lookup 0.0048
2 cache_alloc_debugcheck_after 0.0045
1 sigprocmask 0.0045
4 copy_page_range 0.0041
1 __pagevec_lru_add_active 0.0039
1 get_empty_filp 0.0039
1 expand_stack 0.0039
3 get_signal_to_deliver 0.0037
1 path_lookup 0.0027
1 vfs_quota_sync 0.0023
1 prune_dcache 0.0023
1 clear_page_tables 0.0023
2 filemap_nopage 0.0022
1 dput 0.0021
1 buffered_rmqueue 0.0018
1 unmap_vmas 0.0017
1 page_cache_readahead 0.0017
1 scsi_dispatch_cmd 0.0016
1 do_brk 0.0015
2 exit_notify 0.0009
1 do_wait 0.0008
1 do_mmap_pgoff 0.0005
1127 total 0.0004
1 link_path_walk 0.0003
- --------
After applying the patch, doing a fresh reboot and running 'find / >
/dev/null':
- --------
630 poll_idle 9.8438
167 kmem_cache_free 1.3047
52 kfree 0.3250
24 m_start 0.1875
16 kernel_map_pages 0.1429
40 __d_path 0.1250
23 seq_escape 0.1198
8 seq_puts 0.0748
13 kmap_atomic 0.0677
16 d_path 0.0667
5 _atomic_dec_and_lock 0.0625
16 seq_path 0.0625
5 page_remove_rmap 0.0521
18 show_vfsmnt 0.0511
4 poison_obj 0.0500
4 change_page_attr 0.0357
1 wake_up_inode 0.0312
1 fput 0.0312
14 do_anonymous_page 0.0257
8 release_task 0.0238
2 strnlen_user 0.0208
2 find_get_page 0.0208
1 seq_putc 0.0208
1 unlock_page 0.0156
1 mark_page_accessed 0.0156
2 page_add_anon_rmap 0.0139
2 finish_task_switch 0.0139
2 write_profile 0.0138
1 __read_page_state 0.0125
1 kill_anon_super 0.0125
1 flush_signal_handlers 0.0125
1 bit_waitqueue 0.0125
1 anon_vma_link 0.0125
23 do_page_fault 0.0118
2 __copy_user_intel 0.0114
10 zap_pte_range 0.0112
1 vm_acct_memory 0.0104
1 find_vma 0.0104
10 do_wp_page 0.0104
2 shmem_delete_inode 0.0089
1 strncpy_from_user 0.0089
1 set_page_dirty 0.0089
1 page_add_file_rmap 0.0089
1 bad_range 0.0089
1 sysenter_past_esp 0.0085
2 __pagevec_lru_add_active 0.0078
1 invalidate_inodes 0.0078
1 __insert_vm_struct 0.0078
1 fget_light 0.0078
3 release_pages 0.0075
1 lookup_mnt 0.0069
1 destroy_inode 0.0069
3 dput 0.0063
1 remove_vm_struct 0.0063
1 deactivate_super 0.0063
5 do_no_page 0.0060
3 handle_mm_fault 0.0059
1 kmem_cache_alloc 0.0057
1 generic_fillattr 0.0052
1 flush_tlb_page 0.0052
5 copy_page_range 0.0051
2 do_page_cache_readahead 0.0048
1 proc_lookup 0.0048
2 prune_dcache 0.0046
2 clear_page_tables 0.0046
2 cache_alloc_debugcheck_after 0.0045
1 elf_map 0.0045
1 vma_link 0.0042
1 __might_sleep 0.0042
1 cp_new_stat64 0.0039
3 get_signal_to_deliver 0.0037
1 __d_lookup 0.0031
2 seq_read 0.0030
1 proc_get_inode 0.0027
1 alloc_inode 0.0025
2 copy_mm 0.0021
1 copy_strings 0.0018
1 do_generic_mapping_read 0.0010
1 create_elf_tables 0.0010
2 exit_notify 0.0009
2 link_path_walk 0.0006
1 do_mmap_pgoff 0.0005
1200 total 0.0005
1 load_elf_binary 0.0003
- -------
- From the profile data above, it would appear that this patch allows
unmounting to scale regardless of the size of the inode caches as well.
Please consider applying, Thanks,
- --
Mike Waychison
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
1 (650) 352-5299 voice
1 (416) 202-8336 voice
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Releasing a super_block requires walking all inodes for the given superblock and
releasing them. Currently, inodes are found on one of four lists:
- global list inode_in_use
- global list inode_unused
- per-sb ->s_dirty
- per-sb ->s_io
The second list, inode_unused can potentially be quite large. Unfortunately, it
cannot be made per-sb as it is the global LRU list used for inode cache
reduction under memory pressure.
When unmounting a single filesystem, profiling shows dramatic time spent walking
inode_unused. This because very noticeble when one is unmounting a decently
sized tree of filesystems.
The proposed solution is to create a new list per-sb, that contains all inodes
allocated. It is maintained under the inode_lock for the sake of simplicity,
but this may prove unneccesary, and may be better done with another global or
per-sb lock.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <michael.waychison@sun.com>
Index: linux-2.6.10-quilt/fs/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.10-quilt.orig/fs/inode.c 2005-01-07 14:08:45.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.10-quilt/fs/inode.c 2005-01-07 14:29:16.000000000 -0800
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ static struct inode *alloc_inode(struct
struct address_space * const mapping = &inode->i_data;
inode->i_sb = sb;
+ spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ list_add_tail(&inode->i_all_inodes, &sb->s_all_inodes);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+
inode->i_blkbits = sb->s_blocksize_bits;
inode->i_flags = 0;
atomic_set(&inode->i_count, 1);
@@ -172,6 +176,9 @@ static struct inode *alloc_inode(struct
void destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
+ spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ list_del(&inode->i_all_inodes);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
if (inode_has_buffers(inode))
BUG();
security_inode_free(inode);
@@ -296,7 +303,7 @@ static void dispose_list(struct list_hea
/*
* Invalidate all inodes for a device.
*/
-static int invalidate_list(struct list_head *head, struct super_block * sb, struct list_head * dispose)
+static int invalidate_list(struct list_head *head, struct list_head * dispose)
{
struct list_head *next;
int busy = 0, count = 0;
@@ -309,9 +316,7 @@ static int invalidate_list(struct list_h
next = next->next;
if (tmp == head)
break;
- inode = list_entry(tmp, struct inode, i_list);
- if (inode->i_sb != sb)
- continue;
+ inode = list_entry(tmp, struct inode, i_all_inodes);
invalidate_inode_buffers(inode);
if (!atomic_read(&inode->i_count)) {
hlist_del_init(&inode->i_hash);
@@ -350,10 +355,7 @@ int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block
down(&iprune_sem);
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
- busy = invalidate_list(&inode_in_use, sb, &throw_away);
- busy |= invalidate_list(&inode_unused, sb, &throw_away);
- busy |= invalidate_list(&sb->s_dirty, sb, &throw_away);
- busy |= invalidate_list(&sb->s_io, sb, &throw_away);
+ busy = invalidate_list(&sb->s_all_inodes, &throw_away);
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
dispose_list(&throw_away);
Index: linux-2.6.10-quilt/fs/super.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.10-quilt.orig/fs/super.c 2005-01-07 14:08:50.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.10-quilt/fs/super.c 2005-01-07 14:13:30.000000000 -0800
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(v
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_io);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_files);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_instances);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_all_inodes);
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&s->s_anon);
init_rwsem(&s->s_umount);
sema_init(&s->s_lock, 1);
Index: linux-2.6.10-quilt/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.10-quilt.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2005-01-07 14:08:49.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.10-quilt/include/linux/fs.h 2005-01-07 14:29:43.000000000 -0800
@@ -459,6 +459,7 @@ struct inode {
#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
struct dquot *i_dquot[MAXQUOTAS];
#endif
+ struct list_head i_all_inodes;
/* These three should probably be a union */
struct list_head i_devices;
struct pipe_inode_info *i_pipe;
@@ -776,6 +777,7 @@ struct super_block {
void *s_security;
struct xattr_handler **s_xattr;
+ struct list_head s_all_inodes; /* goes through i_all_inodes */
struct list_head s_dirty; /* dirty inodes */
struct list_head s_io; /* parked for writeback */
struct hlist_head s_anon; /* anonymous dentries for (nfs) exporting */
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread* Re: [patch] Per-sb s_all_inodes list
2005-01-10 21:19 [patch] Per-sb s_all_inodes list Mike Waychison
@ 2005-01-11 1:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-11 2:08 ` Mike Waychison
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: William Lee Irwin III @ 2005-01-11 1:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Waychison; +Cc: Linux kernel, viro
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:19:24PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
> Releasing a super_block requires walking all inodes for the given
> superblock and releasing them. Currently, inodes are found on one of
> four lists:
[...]
> The second list, inode_unused can potentially be quite large.
> Unfortunately, it cannot be made per-sb as it is the global LRU list
> used for inode cache reduction under memory pressure.
> When unmounting a single filesystem, profiling shows dramatic time spent
> walking inode_unused. This because very noticeble when one is
> unmounting a decently sized tree of filesystems.
> The proposed solution is to create a new list per-sb, that contains all
> inodes allocated. It is maintained under the inode_lock for the sake of
> simplicity, but this may prove unneccesary, and may be better done with
> another global or per-sb lock.
I thought this was a good idea a number of months ago myself when I saw
a patch for 2.4.x implementing this from Kirill Korotaev, so I ported
that code to 2.6.x and it got merged in -mm then. That patch was merged
into Linus' bk shortly after 2.6.10. Could you check Linus' bk to see
if what made it there resolves the issue as well as your own?
-- wli
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch] Per-sb s_all_inodes list
2005-01-11 1:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
@ 2005-01-11 2:08 ` Mike Waychison
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mike Waychison @ 2005-01-11 2:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: William Lee Irwin III; +Cc: Linux kernel, viro
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:19:24PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
>
>>Releasing a super_block requires walking all inodes for the given
>>superblock and releasing them. Currently, inodes are found on one of
>>four lists:
>
> [...]
>
>>The second list, inode_unused can potentially be quite large.
>>Unfortunately, it cannot be made per-sb as it is the global LRU list
>>used for inode cache reduction under memory pressure.
>>When unmounting a single filesystem, profiling shows dramatic time spent
>>walking inode_unused. This because very noticeble when one is
>>unmounting a decently sized tree of filesystems.
>>The proposed solution is to create a new list per-sb, that contains all
>>inodes allocated. It is maintained under the inode_lock for the sake of
>>simplicity, but this may prove unneccesary, and may be better done with
>>another global or per-sb lock.
>
>
> I thought this was a good idea a number of months ago myself when I saw
> a patch for 2.4.x implementing this from Kirill Korotaev, so I ported
> that code to 2.6.x and it got merged in -mm then. That patch was merged
> into Linus' bk shortly after 2.6.10. Could you check Linus' bk to see
> if what made it there resolves the issue as well as your own?
>
Excellent. I eyeballed the patch on bkbits.net and it does exactly what
I posted.
Thanks,
- --
Mike Waychison
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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