[XFS] On machines with more than 8 cpus, when running parallel I/O

threads, the incore superblock lock becomes the limiting factor for
buffered write throughput. Make the contended fields in the incore
superblock use per-cpu counters so that there is no global lock to limit
scalability.

SGI-PV: 946630
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:25106a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
index 4c9817a80435..7cca5110ca44 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
@@ -267,6 +267,32 @@ typedef struct xfs_ioops {
 #define XFS_IODONE(vfsp) \
         (*(mp)->m_io_ops.xfs_iodone)(vfsp)
 
+#ifdef HAVE_PERCPU_SB
+
+/*
+ * Valid per-cpu incore superblock counters. Note that if you add new counters,
+ * you may need to define new counter disabled bit field descriptors as there
+ * are more possible fields in the superblock that can fit in a bitfield on a
+ * 32 bit platform. The XFS_SBS_* values for the current current counters just
+ * fit.
+ */
+typedef struct xfs_icsb_cnts {
+        uint64_t        icsb_fdblocks;
+        uint64_t        icsb_ifree;
+        uint64_t        icsb_icount;
+        spinlock_t      icsb_lock;
+} xfs_icsb_cnts_t;
+
+#define XFS_ICSB_SB_LOCKED      (1 << 0)        /* sb already locked */
+#define XFS_ICSB_LAZY_COUNT     (1 << 1)        /* accuracy not needed */
+
+extern int      xfs_icsb_init_counters(struct xfs_mount *);
+extern void     xfs_icsb_sync_counters_lazy(struct xfs_mount *);
+
+#else
+#define xfs_icsb_init_counters(mp)      (0)
+#define xfs_icsb_sync_counters_lazy(mp) do { } while (0)
+#endif
 
 typedef struct xfs_mount {
         bhv_desc_t              m_bhv;          /* vfs xfs behavior */
@@ -372,6 +398,10 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
         struct xfs_qmops        m_qm_ops;       /* vector of XQM ops */
         struct xfs_ioops        m_io_ops;       /* vector of I/O ops */
         atomic_t                m_active_trans; /* number trans frozen */
+#ifdef HAVE_PERCPU_SB
+        xfs_icsb_cnts_t         *m_sb_cnts;     /* per-cpu superblock counters */
+        unsigned long           m_icsb_counters; /* disabled per-cpu counters */
+#endif
 } xfs_mount_t;
 
 /*
@@ -409,6 +439,8 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
 #define XFS_MOUNT_DIRSYNC       (1ULL << 21)    /* synchronous directory ops */
 #define XFS_MOUNT_COMPAT_IOSIZE (1ULL << 22)    /* don't report large preferred
                                                  * I/O size in stat() */
+#define XFS_MOUNT_NO_PERCPU_SB  (1ULL << 23)    /* don't use per-cpu superblock
+                                                   counters */
 
 
 /*
@@ -546,6 +578,8 @@ extern void	xfs_unmountfs_close(xfs_mount_t *, struct cred *);
 extern int      xfs_unmountfs_writesb(xfs_mount_t *);
 extern int      xfs_unmount_flush(xfs_mount_t *, int);
 extern int      xfs_mod_incore_sb(xfs_mount_t *, xfs_sb_field_t, int, int);
+extern int      xfs_mod_incore_sb_unlocked(xfs_mount_t *, xfs_sb_field_t,
+                        int, int);
 extern int      xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch(xfs_mount_t *, xfs_mod_sb_t *,
                         uint, int);
 extern struct xfs_buf *xfs_getsb(xfs_mount_t *, int);