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, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 088fb3fd45e0..97fff3a4e72f 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -262,20 +262,20 @@ static struct inode *sock_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 }
 
 
-static void wq_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
+static void sock_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
-        struct socket_wq *wq = container_of(head, struct socket_wq, rcu);
+        struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu);
+        struct socket_alloc *ei = container_of(inode, struct socket_alloc,
+                                                                vfs_inode);
 
-        kfree(wq);
+        kfree(ei->socket.wq);
+        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry);
+        kmem_cache_free(sock_inode_cachep, ei);
 }
 
 static void sock_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
-        struct socket_alloc *ei;
-
-        ei = container_of(inode, struct socket_alloc, vfs_inode);
-        call_rcu(&ei->socket.wq->rcu, wq_free_rcu);
-        kmem_cache_free(sock_inode_cachep, ei);
+        call_rcu(&inode->i_rcu, sock_free_rcu);
 }
 
 static void init_once(void *foo)