From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] fs: Introduce per-bucket inode hash locks
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:06:33 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101017020633.GB3162@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101017004515.GB1614@infradead.org>
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 08:45:15PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 04:12:13AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > With the changes Dave implemented based on my suggestions we now have
> > > an abstract locked hash list data type. It has the normal hash list
> > > operations plus lock/unlock operations.
> >
> > That's ugly. It just hides the locking. If a bit of casting bothers
> > you then put it in a function where it is used like I did.
>
> Exposing the implementation details of which bit of a pointer can
> be used as lock when cast to an unsigned long to every user of an
> abstract type is what I would consider ugly, and on similar issues
> I've certainly not been the only one.
The low bit.
> > > So if e.g. the -rt folks need
> > > real locks in there there is one single place they need to touch
> > > instead of every user. Similarly if we want to add lockdep support
> > > there is just one place to touch.
> >
> > It's unnecessary.
>
> What, lockdep support?
Yes. It would be stupid to do lockdep support for bit spinlocks in all
places where they are used. What should be done (and there is work
towards) is to be able to change the bit spinlock API (or add a new one)
so that external lockdep data structure can be given.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-17 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 162+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 5:21 fs: Inode cache scalability V2 Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 01/18] kernel: add bl_list Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 8:18 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-08 10:33 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 02/18] fs: Convert nr_inodes and nr_unused to per-cpu counters Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 03/18] fs: keep inode with backing-dev Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 7:27 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 04/18] fs: Implement lazy LRU updates for inodes Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 7:31 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 9:08 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 9:51 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 05/18] fs: inode split IO and LRU lists Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 7:38 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 9:16 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 9:58 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 06/18] fs: Clean up inode reference counting Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 7:46 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 07/18] exofs: use iput() for inode reference count decrements Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 7:56 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-17 15:41 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 08/18] fs: add inode reference coutn read accessor Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 09/18] fs: rework icount to be a locked variable Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 7:50 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 8:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 13:16 ` Chris Mason
2010-10-08 9:32 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 10:15 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 13:14 ` Chris Mason
2010-10-08 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 14:09 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 10/18] fs: Factor inode hash operations into functions Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 9:41 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 11/18] fs: Introduce per-bucket inode hash locks Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 7:51 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 9:49 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 9:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 13:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 14:17 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 18:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 7:57 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 16:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 17:12 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17 0:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-17 2:06 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-10-17 0:46 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-17 2:25 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-18 16:16 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-18 16:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-19 7:00 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-19 16:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-20 3:11 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-24 15:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-24 21:17 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-25 4:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-25 7:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-10-26 0:12 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-26 0:06 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 12/18] fs: add a per-superblock lock for the inode list Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 13/18] fs: split locking of inode writeback and LRU lists Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 8:00 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 8:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 7:57 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 16:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 17:19 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17 1:00 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-17 2:20 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 14/18] fs: Protect inode->i_state with th einode->i_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 8:04 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 8:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 7:57 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-09 8:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-09 14:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-10-10 2:01 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 15/18] fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 8:05 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 8:22 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-08 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 9:58 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 10:09 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-08 10:19 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 10:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-08 9:56 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 10:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 10:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-08 13:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 14:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-08 19:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-09 17:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-10-16 7:57 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 16:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 17:21 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 16/18] fs: Make iunique independent of inode_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 7:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 8:06 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 8:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 17/18] fs: icache remove inode_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 8:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 8:09 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 7:20 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-13 7:27 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-13 11:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 12:03 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-13 12:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 12:25 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-13 10:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-13 12:07 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-13 11:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 12:30 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-13 23:23 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-14 9:06 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-14 9:13 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-14 14:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-15 0:14 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 3:13 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-15 3:30 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 3:44 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 6:41 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 10:59 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-15 13:03 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 13:29 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 17:33 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-15 18:02 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 18:14 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 2:09 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 14:11 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 20:50 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 20:56 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 4:04 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 11:33 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-15 13:14 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-15 15:38 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 7:57 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-08 5:21 ` [PATCH 18/18] fs: Reduce inode I_FREEING and factor inode disposal Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 8:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 10:18 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 10:52 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-08 12:10 ` Al Viro
2010-10-08 13:55 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-09 17:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-10-09 8:08 ` [PATCH 19/18] fs: split __inode_add_to_list Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-12 10:47 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-12 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-12 12:05 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 20/18] fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode Christoph Hellwig
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