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>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
index 0cdd26932d8..d7de5a3f786 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
@@ -91,6 +91,17 @@ xfs_inode_alloc(
 	return ip;
 }
 
+STATIC void
+xfs_inode_free_callback(
+	struct rcu_head		*head)
+{
+	struct inode		*inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu);
+	struct xfs_inode	*ip = XFS_I(inode);
+
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry);
+	kmem_zone_free(xfs_inode_zone, ip);
+}
+
 void
 xfs_inode_free(
 	struct xfs_inode	*ip)
@@ -134,7 +145,7 @@ xfs_inode_free(
 	ASSERT(!spin_is_locked(&ip->i_flags_lock));
 	ASSERT(completion_done(&ip->i_flush));
 
-	kmem_zone_free(xfs_inode_zone, ip);
+	call_rcu(&ip->i_vnode.i_rcu, xfs_inode_free_callback);
 }
 
 /*