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authorDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>2005-09-09 13:04:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-09 13:57:55 -0700
commitab2af1f5005069321c5d130f09cce577b03f43ef (patch)
tree73a70ba486f522cd9eeeef376ede2b5a1c1b473b /fs/aio.c
parent6e72ad2c581de121cc7e772469e2a8f6b1fd4379 (diff)
[PATCH] files: files struct with RCU
Patch to eliminate struct files_struct.file_lock spinlock on the reader side and use rcu refcounting rcuref_xxx api for the f_count refcounter. The updates to the fdtable are done by allocating a new fdtable structure and setting files->fdt to point to the new structure. The fdtable structure is protected by RCU thereby allowing lock-free lookup. For fd arrays/sets that are vmalloced, we use keventd to free them since RCU callbacks can't sleep. A global list of fdtable to be freed is not scalable, so we use a per-cpu list. If keventd is already handling the current cpu's work, we use a timer to defer queueing of that work. Since the last publication, this patch has been re-written to avoid using explicit memory barriers and use rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference() premitives instead. This required that the fd information is kept in a separate structure (fdtable) and updated atomically. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/aio.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/aio.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 201c1847fa0..38f62680fd6 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/rcuref.h>
#include <asm/kmap_types.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -499,7 +500,7 @@ static int __aio_put_req(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb *req)
/* Must be done under the lock to serialise against cancellation.
* Call this aio_fput as it duplicates fput via the fput_work.
*/
- if (unlikely(atomic_dec_and_test(&req->ki_filp->f_count))) {
+ if (unlikely(rcuref_dec_and_test(&req->ki_filp->f_count))) {
get_ioctx(ctx);
spin_lock(&fput_lock);
list_add(&req->ki_list, &fput_head);