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| author | Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> | 2013-08-28 10:17:55 +1000 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2013-09-10 18:56:30 -0400 |
| commit | 19156840e33a23eeb1a749c0f991dab6588b077d (patch) | |
| tree | 460675d21b0d6a5de3c179b951d18fec24e77cc8 /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | 62d36c77035219ac776d1882ed3a662f2b75f258 (diff) | |
dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks
With the dentry LRUs being per-sb structures, there is no real need for
a global dentry_lru_lock. The locking can be made more fine-grained by
moving to a per-sb LRU lock, isolating the LRU operations of different
filesytsems completely from each other. The need for this is independent
of any performance consideration that may arise: in the interest of
abstracting the lru operations away, it is mandatory that each lru works
around its own lock instead of a global lock for all of them.
[glommer@openvz.org: updated changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 3b3edac75df2..14a90f6886fa 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1269,7 +1269,9 @@ struct super_block { struct list_head s_files; #endif struct list_head s_mounts; /* list of mounts; _not_ for fs use */ - /* s_dentry_lru, s_nr_dentry_unused protected by dcache.c lru locks */ + + /* s_dentry_lru_lock protects s_dentry_lru and s_nr_dentry_unused */ + spinlock_t s_dentry_lru_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; struct list_head s_dentry_lru; /* unused dentry lru */ long s_nr_dentry_unused; /* # of dentry on lru */ |