linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/powerpc/platforms
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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8xx powerpc/8xx: Add support for the MPC8xx based boards from TQC 2010-08-04 14:25:22 -05:00
40x Remove REDWOOD_[456] config options and conditional code 2010-07-26 09:06:04 -04:00
44x powerpc/44x: Add support for the AMCC APM821xx SoC 2010-10-13 08:47:09 -04:00
52xx powerpc/mpc5200: include fs.h in mpc52xx_gpt.c 2010-12-23 12:08:02 -07:00
82xx powerpc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device 2010-07-24 09:58:21 -06:00
83xx powerpc/mpc83xx: Support for MPC8308 P1M board 2010-10-14 00:52:53 -05:00
85xx Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 2010-10-25 08:32:05 -07:00
86xx Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc6' into devicetree/next 2010-07-24 09:49:13 -06:00
512x powerpc/512x: fix clk_get() return value 2010-09-01 09:31:06 -06:00
amigaone of/address: Clean up function declarations 2010-08-01 01:42:42 -06:00
cell fs: icache RCU free inodes 2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
chrp powerpc/chrp/nvram.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak 2010-09-02 14:07:34 +10:00
embedded6xx powerpc, memblock: Fix memblock API change fallout 2010-09-11 10:30:28 +02:00
iseries Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
maple powerpc/maple: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak 2010-09-02 14:07:33 +10:00
pasemi powerpc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device 2010-07-24 09:58:21 -06:00
powermac powerpc/powermac/pfunc_core.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak 2010-09-02 14:07:33 +10:00
prep powerpc/kconfig: Kill PPC_MULTIPLATFORM 2009-03-11 17:11:35 +11:00
ps3 Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-08-04 15:14:38 +02:00
pseries powerpc/pseries: Don't override CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES_DEBUG 2010-11-18 14:54:22 +11:00
fsl_uli1575.c PCI: add pci_bus_for_each_resource(), remove direct bus->resource[] refs 2010-02-23 09:43:31 -08:00
Kconfig KVM: PPC: Generic KVM PV guest support 2010-10-24 10:50:50 +02:00
Kconfig.cputype powerpc/fsl-booke: Add support for FSL 64-bit e5500 core 2010-10-14 00:55:03 -05:00
Makefile powerpc/85xx: Kconfig cleanup 2009-11-20 16:45:27 -06:00