On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:39:15AM -0600, T Makphaibulchoke wrote:
> The patch increases the parallelism of mb_cache_entry utilization by
> replacing list_head with hlist_bl_node for the implementation of both the
> block and index hash tables. Each hlist_bl_node contains a built-in lock
> used to protect mb_cache's local block and index hash chains. The global
> data mb_cache_lru_list and mb_cache_list continue to be protected by the
> global mb_cache_spinlock.
In the process of applying this patch to the ext4 tree, I had to
rework one of the patches to account for a change upstream to the
shrinker interface (which modified mb_cache_shrink_fn() to be
mb_cache_shrink_scan()).
Can you verify that the changes I made look sane?
Thanks,
- Ted
diff --git a/fs/mbcache.c b/fs/mbcache.c
index 1f90cd0..44e7153 100644
--- a/fs/mbcache.c
+++ b/fs/mbcache.c
@@ -200,25 +200,38 @@ forget:
static unsigned long
mb_cache_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
{
- LIST_HEAD(free_list);
- struct mb_cache_entry *entry, *tmp;
int nr_to_scan = sc->nr_to_scan;
gfp_t gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask;
unsigned long freed = 0;
mb_debug("trying to free %d entries", nr_to_scan);
- spin_lock(&mb_cache_spinlock);
- while (nr_to_scan-- && !list_empty(&mb_cache_lru_list)) {
- struct mb_cache_entry *ce =
- list_entry(mb_cache_lru_list.next,
- struct mb_cache_entry, e_lru_list);
- list_move_tail(&ce->e_lru_list, &free_list);
- __mb_cache_entry_unhash(ce);
- freed++;
- }
- spin_unlock(&mb_cache_spinlock);
- list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &free_list, e_lru_list) {
- __mb_cache_entry_forget(entry, gfp_mask);
+ while (nr_to_scan > 0) {
+ struct mb_cache_entry *ce;
+
+ spin_lock(&mb_cache_spinlock);
+ if (list_empty(&mb_cache_lru_list)) {
+ spin_unlock(&mb_cache_spinlock);
+ break;
+ }
+ ce = list_entry(mb_cache_lru_list.next,
+ struct mb_cache_entry, e_lru_list);
+ list_del_init(&ce->e_lru_list);
+ spin_unlock(&mb_cache_spinlock);
+
+ hlist_bl_lock(ce->e_block_hash_p);
+ hlist_bl_lock(ce->e_index_hash_p);
+ if (!(ce->e_used || ce->e_queued)) {
+ __mb_cache_entry_unhash_index(ce);
+ hlist_bl_unlock(ce->e_index_hash_p);
+ __mb_cache_entry_unhash_block(ce);
+ hlist_bl_unlock(ce->e_block_hash_p);
+ __mb_cache_entry_forget(ce, gfp_mask);
+ --nr_to_scan;
+ freed++;
+ } else {
+ hlist_bl_unlock(ce->e_index_hash_p);
+ hlist_bl_unlock(ce->e_block_hash_p);
+ }
}
return freed;
}
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