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authorDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>2006-03-08 00:55:35 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-08 17:14:01 -0500
commit529bf6be5c04f2e869d07bfdb122e9fd98ade714 (patch)
tree38514bb3941c4ac2a79266e4483663b79efa2f22 /include/linux/fs.h
parent21a1ea9eb40411d4ee29448c53b9e4c0654d6ceb (diff)
[PATCH] fix file counting
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc. The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up with a very fragmented slab - llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 587730 0 758844 At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following patch I fixes this problem. This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock. Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user. Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 0cc34b1c42c9..51c0c93bdf93 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct files_stat_struct {
35 int max_files; /* tunable */ 35 int max_files; /* tunable */
36}; 36};
37extern struct files_stat_struct files_stat; 37extern struct files_stat_struct files_stat;
38extern int get_max_files(void);
38 39
39struct inodes_stat_t { 40struct inodes_stat_t {
40 int nr_inodes; 41 int nr_inodes;