From ab2af1f5005069321c5d130f09cce577b03f43ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dipankar Sarma Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:04:13 -0700 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/aio.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/aio.c') diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 201c1847fa07..38f62680fd63 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -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); -- cgit v1.2.3