On 08/03/2016 05:17 PM, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
>
>
> On 08/03/2016 04:46 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 10:35 +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
>>> On busy container servers reading /proc/locks shows all the locks
>>> created by all clients. This can cause large latency spikes. In my
>>> case I observed lsof taking up to 5-10 seconds while processing around
>>> 50k locks. Fix this by limiting the locks shown only to those created
>>> in the same pidns as the one the proc was mounted in. When reading
>>> /proc/locks from the init_pid_ns show everything.
>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> fs/locks.c | 6 ++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
>>> index ee1b15f6fc13..751673d7f7fc 100644
>>> --- a/fs/locks.c
>>> +++ b/fs/locks.c
>>> @@ -2648,9 +2648,15 @@ static int locks_show(struct seq_file *f, void *v)
>>> {
>>>> struct locks_iterator *iter = f->private;
>>>> struct file_lock *fl, *bfl;
>>>> + struct pid_namespace *proc_pidns = file_inode(f->file)->i_sb->s_fs_info;
>>>> + struct pid_namespace *current_pidns = task_active_pid_ns(current);
>>>
>>>> fl = hlist_entry(v, struct file_lock, fl_link);
>>>
>>>>> + if ((current_pidns != &init_pid_ns) && fl->fl_nspid
>>
>> Ok, so when you read from a process that's in the init_pid_ns
>> namespace, then you'll get the whole pile of locks, even when reading
>> this from a filesystem that was mounted in a different pid_ns?
>>
>> That seems odd to me if so. Any reason not to just uniformly use the
>> proc_pidns here?
>
> [CCing some people from openvz/CRIU]
Thanks :)
> My train of thought was "we should have means which would be the one
> universal truth about everything and this would be a process in the
> init_pid_ns". I don't have strong preference as long as I'm not breaking
> userspace. As I said before - I think the CRIU guys might be using that
> interface.
This particular change won't break us mostly because we've switched to
reading the /proc/pid/fdinfo/n files for locks.
-- Pavel
>>
>>>>> + && (proc_pidns != ns_of_pid(fl->fl_nspid)))
>>>> + return 0;
>>> +
>>>> lock_get_status(f, fl, iter->li_pos, "");
>>>
>>>> list_for_each_entry(bfl, &fl->fl_block, fl_block)
>>
> .
>
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