From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-13.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A71E2C47098 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2021 14:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C0D613F3 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2021 14:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229987AbhFDObN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:31:13 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:58066 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229675AbhFDObM (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:31:12 -0400 Received: from in02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.52]) by out02.mta.xmission.com with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1lpAp9-00AYAG-CB; Fri, 04 Jun 2021 08:29:23 -0600 Received: from ip68-227-160-95.om.om.cox.net ([68.227.160.95] helo=email.xmission.com) by in02.mta.xmission.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1lpAot-003o0X-OR; Fri, 04 Jun 2021 08:29:22 -0600 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Ian Kent Cc: Miklos Szeredi , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Tejun Heo , Eric Sandeen , Fox Chen , Brice Goglin , Al Viro , Rick Lindsley , David Howells , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-fsdevel , Kernel Mailing List References: <162218354775.34379.5629941272050849549.stgit@web.messagingengine.com> <162218364554.34379.636306635794792903.stgit@web.messagingengine.com> <87czt2q2pl.fsf@disp2133> <87y2bqli8b.fsf@disp2133> <6ae8e5f843855c2c14b58227340e2a0070ef1b6c.camel@themaw.net> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 09:28:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <6ae8e5f843855c2c14b58227340e2a0070ef1b6c.camel@themaw.net> (Ian Kent's message of "Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:14:47 +0800") Message-ID: <87k0n9ln52.fsf@disp2133> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-XM-SPF: eid=1lpAot-003o0X-OR;;;mid=<87k0n9ln52.fsf@disp2133>;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=68.227.160.95;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX18Pyowby/nmzJD54e7CsoQAwDn71q5lz9M= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.227.160.95 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: [REPOST PATCH v4 2/5] kernfs: use VFS negative dentry caching X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sat, 08 Feb 2020 21:53:50 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ian Kent writes: > On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 17:02 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Miklos Szeredi writes: >> >> > On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 19:26, Eric W. Biederman < >> > ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > Ian Kent writes: >> > > >> > > > If there are many lookups for non-existent paths these negative >> > > > lookups >> > > > can lead to a lot of overhead during path walks. >> > > > >> > > > The VFS allows dentries to be created as negative and hashed, >> > > > and caches >> > > > them so they can be used to reduce the fairly high overhead >> > > > alloc/free >> > > > cycle that occurs during these lookups. >> > > > >> > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent >> > > > --- >> > > >  fs/kernfs/dir.c |   55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ >> > > > ---------------- >> > > >  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) >> > > > >> > > > diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c >> > > > index 4c69e2af82dac..5151c712f06f5 100644 >> > > > --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c >> > > > +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c >> > > > @@ -1037,12 +1037,33 @@ static int kernfs_dop_revalidate(struct >> > > > dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags) >> > > >       if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU) >> > > >               return -ECHILD; >> > > > >> > > > -     /* Always perform fresh lookup for negatives */ >> > > > -     if (d_really_is_negative(dentry)) >> > > > -             goto out_bad_unlocked; >> > > > +     mutex_lock(&kernfs_mutex); >> > > > >> > > >       kn = kernfs_dentry_node(dentry); >> > > > -     mutex_lock(&kernfs_mutex); >> > > >> > > Why bring kernfs_dentry_node inside the mutex? >> > > >> > > The inode lock of the parent should protect negative to positive >> > > transitions not the kernfs_mutex.  So moving the code inside >> > > the mutex looks unnecessary and confusing. >> > >> > Except that d_revalidate() may or may not be called with parent >> > lock >> > held. > > Bringing the kernfs_dentry_node() inside taking the mutex is probably > wasteful, as you say, oddly the reason I did it that conceptually it > makes sense to me since the kernfs node is being grabbed. But it > probably isn't possible for a concurrent unlink so is not necessary. > > Since you feel strongly about I can change it. > >> >> I grant that this works because kernfs_io_lookup today holds >> kernfs_mutex over d_splice_alias. > > Changing that will require some thought but your points about > maintainability are well taken. > >> >> The problem is that the kernfs_mutex only should be protecting the >> kernfs data structures not the vfs data structures. >> >> Reading through the code history that looks like a hold over from >> when >> sysfs lived in the dcache before it was reimplemented as a >> distributed >> file system.  So it was probably a complete over sight and something >> that did not matter. >> >> The big problem is that if the code starts depending upon the >> kernfs_mutex (or the kernfs_rwsem) to provide semantics the rest of >> the >> filesystems does not the code will diverge from the rest of the >> filesystems and maintenance will become much more difficult. >> >> Diverging from other filesystems and becoming a maintenance pain has >> already been seen once in the life of sysfs and I don't think we want >> to >> go back there. >> >> Further extending the scope of lock, when the problem is that the >> locking is causing problems seems like the opposite of the direction >> we >> want the code to grow. >> >> I really suspect all we want kernfs_dop_revalidate doing for negative >> dentries is something as simple as comparing the timestamp of the >> negative dentry to the timestamp of the parent dentry, and if the >> timestamp has changed perform the lookup.  That is roughly what >> nfs does today with negative dentries. >> >> The dentry cache will always lag the kernfs_node data structures, and >> that is fundamental.  We should take advantage of that to make the >> code >> as simple and as fast as we can not to perform lots of work that >> creates >> overhead. >> >> Plus the kernfs data structures should not change much so I expect >> there will be effectively 0 penalty in always performing the lookup >> of a >> negative dentry when the directory itself has changed. > > This sounds good to me. > > In fact this approach should be able to be used to resolve the > potential race Miklos pointed out in a much simpler way, not to > mention the revalidate simplification itself. > > But isn't knowing whether the directory has changed harder to > do than checking a time stamp? > > Look at kernfs_refresh_inode() and it's callers for example. > > I suspect that would require bringing back the series patch to use > a generation number to identify directory changes (and also getting > rid of the search in revalidate). In essence it is a simple as looking at a sequence number or a timestamp to detect the directory has changed. In practice there are always details that make things more complicated. I was actually wondering if the approach should be to have an seqlock around an individual directories rbtree. I think that would give a lot of potential for rcu style optimization during lookups. All of the little details and choices on how to optimize this is why I was suggesting splitting the patch in two. Starting first with something that allows negative dentries. Then adds the tests so that the negative dentries are not always invalidated. That should allow focusing on the tricky bits. Eric