From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6C77D581 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727762AbeILWl2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:41:28 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:51592 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727010AbeILWl2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:41:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D63B2402243B; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:35:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from llong.com (dhcp-17-55.bos.redhat.com [10.18.17.55]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B994A2166BA2; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:35:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Waiman Long To: Alexander Viro , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Kees Cook , Linus Torvalds , Jan Kara , "Paul E. McKenney" , Ingo Molnar , Miklos Szeredi , Matthew Wilcox , Larry Woodman , James Bottomley , "Wangkai (Kevin C)" , Michal Hocko , Waiman Long Subject: [PATCH v4 0/3] fs/dcache: Track # of negative dentries Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:35:39 -0400 Message-Id: <1536773742-32687-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.6 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.6]); Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:35:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.6]); Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:35:54 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.6' DOMAIN:'int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'longman@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org v3->v4: - Drop patch 4 as it is just a minor optimization. - Add a cc:stable tag to patch 1. - Clean up some comments in patch 3. v2->v3: - With confirmation that the dummy array in dentry_stat structure was never a replacement of a previously used field, patch 3 is now reverted back to use one of dummy field as the negative dentry count instead of adding a new field. v1->v2: - Clarify what the new nr_dentry_negative per-cpu counter is tracking and open-code the increment and decrement as suggested by Dave Chinner. - Append the new nr_dentry_negative count as the 7th element of dentry-state instead of replacing one of the dummy entries. - Remove patch "fs/dcache: Make negative dentries easier to be reclaimed" for now as I need more time to think about what to do with it. - Add 2 more patches to address issues found while reviewing the dentry code. - Add another patch to change the conditional branch of nr_dentry_negative accounting to conditional move so as to reduce the performance impact of the accounting code. This patchset addresses 2 issues found in the dentry code and adds a new nr_dentry_negative per-cpu counter to track the total number of negative dentries in all the LRU lists. Patch 1 fixes a bug in the accounting of nr_dentry_unused in shrink_dcache_sb(). Patch 2 removes the ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp tag from super_block LRU lists. Patch 3 adds the new nr_dentry_negative per-cpu counter. Various filesystem related tests were run and no statistically significant changes in performance outside of the possible noise range was observed. Waiman Long (3): fs/dcache: Fix incorrect nr_dentry_unused accounting in shrink_dcache_sb() fs: Don't need to put list_lru into its own cacheline fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++---------- fs/dcache.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/dcache.h | 7 ++++--- include/linux/fs.h | 9 +++++---- 4 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1