From patchwork Tue Sep 11 19:18:22 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Waiman Long X-Patchwork-Id: 10596209 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D4314F9 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AE929BD9 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:19:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id E641129D0D; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:19:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD5829BD9 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:19:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727686AbeILATS (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:19:18 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:32902 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726775AbeILATS (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:19:18 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 398754023ECB; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:18:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from llong.com (ovpn-123-172.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.123.172]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3EE2166BA3; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:18:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Waiman Long To: Alexander Viro , Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Kees Cook , Linus Torvalds , Jan Kara , "Paul E. McKenney" , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Miklos Szeredi , Matthew Wilcox , Larry Woodman , James Bottomley , "Wangkai (Kevin C)" , Michal Hocko , Waiman Long Subject: [PATCH v3 0/4] fs/dcache: Track # of negative dentries Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:18:22 -0400 Message-Id: <1536693506-11949-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.6 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.7]); Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:18:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.7]); Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:18:34 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.6' DOMAIN:'int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'longman@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP v2->v3: - With confirmation that the dummy array in dentry_stat structure was never a replacement of a previously used field, patch 3 is now reverted back to use one of dummy field as the negative dentry count instead of adding a new field. v1->v2: - Clarify what the new nr_dentry_negative per-cpu counter is tracking and open-code the increment and decrement as suggested by Dave Chinner. - Append the new nr_dentry_negative count as the 7th element of dentry-state instead of replacing one of the dummy entries. - Remove patch "fs/dcache: Make negative dentries easier to be reclaimed" for now as I need more time to think about what to do with it. - Add 2 more patches to address issues found while reviewing the dentry code. - Add another patch to change the conditional branch of nr_dentry_negative accounting to conditional move so as to reduce the performance impact of the accounting code. This patchset addresses 2 issues found in the dentry code and adds a new nr_dentry_negative per-cpu counter to track the total number of negative dentries in all the LRU lists. Patch 1 fixes a bug in the accounting of nr_dentry_unused in shrink_dcache_sb(). Patch 2 removes the ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp tag from super_block LRU lists. Patch 3 adds the new nr_dentry_negative per-cpu counter. Patch 4 removes conditional branches in nr_dentry_negative accounting code. Various filesystem related tests were run and no statistically significant changes in performance was observed. Waiman Long (4): fs/dcache: Fix incorrect nr_dentry_unused accounting in shrink_dcache_sb() fs: Don't need to put list_lru into its own cacheline fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries fs/dcache: Eliminate branches in nr_dentry_negative accounting Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 26 +++++++++++++--------- fs/dcache.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/dcache.h | 7 +++--- include/linux/fs.h | 9 ++++---- 4 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)