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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/inode.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index f5ff71cb3e2b..76582b06ab97 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/backing-dev.h> #include <linux/wait.h> +#include <linux/rwsem.h> #include <linux/hash.h> #include <linux/swap.h> #include <linux/security.h> @@ -87,14 +88,18 @@ static struct hlist_head *inode_hashtable __read_mostly; DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inode_lock); /* - * iprune_mutex provides exclusion between the kswapd or try_to_free_pages + * iprune_sem provides exclusion between the kswapd or try_to_free_pages * icache shrinking path, and the umount path. Without this exclusion, * by the time prune_icache calls iput for the inode whose pages it has * been invalidating, or by the time it calls clear_inode & destroy_inode * from its final dispose_list, the struct super_block they refer to * (for inode->i_sb->s_op) may already have been freed and reused. + * + * We make this an rwsem because the fastpath is icache shrinking. In + * some cases a filesystem may be doing a significant amount of work in + * its inode reclaim code, so this should improve parallelism. */ -static DEFINE_MUTEX(iprune_mutex); +static DECLARE_RWSEM(iprune_sem); /* * Statistics gathering.. @@ -381,7 +386,7 @@ static int invalidate_list(struct list_head *head, struct list_head *dispose) /* * We can reschedule here without worrying about the list's * consistency because the per-sb list of inodes must not - * change during umount anymore, and because iprune_mutex keeps + * change during umount anymore, and because iprune_sem keeps * shrink_icache_memory() away. */ cond_resched_lock(&inode_lock); @@ -420,7 +425,7 @@ int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block *sb) int busy; LIST_HEAD(throw_away); - mutex_lock(&iprune_mutex); + down_write(&iprune_sem); spin_lock(&inode_lock); inotify_unmount_inodes(&sb->s_inodes); fsnotify_unmount_inodes(&sb->s_inodes); @@ -428,7 +433,7 @@ int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block *sb) spin_unlock(&inode_lock); dispose_list(&throw_away); - mutex_unlock(&iprune_mutex); + up_write(&iprune_sem); return busy; } @@ -467,7 +472,7 @@ static void prune_icache(int nr_to_scan) int nr_scanned; unsigned long reap = 0; - mutex_lock(&iprune_mutex); + down_read(&iprune_sem); spin_lock(&inode_lock); for (nr_scanned = 0; nr_scanned < nr_to_scan; nr_scanned++) { struct inode *inode; @@ -509,7 +514,7 @@ static void prune_icache(int nr_to_scan) spin_unlock(&inode_lock); dispose_list(&freeable); - mutex_unlock(&iprune_mutex); + up_read(&iprune_sem); } /* |