Re: [PATCH v2] fsnotify: fix unlink performance regression

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On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 7:33 PM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri 10-05-19 18:24:42, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 1:31 PM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed 08-05-19 19:09:56, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:12 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Yes, I much prefer this solution myself and I will follow up with it,
> > > > > but it would not be honest to suggest said solution as a stable fix
> > > > > to the performance regression that was introduced in v5.1.
> > > > > I think is it better if you choose between lesser evil:
> > > > > v1 with ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY to fix build issue
> > > > > v2 as subtle as it is
> > > > > OR another obviously safe stable fix that you can think of
> > > > >
> > > > > The change of cleansing d_delete() from fsnotify_nameremove()
> > > > > requires more research and is anyway not stable tree material -
> > > > > if not for the level of complexity, then because all the users of
> > > > > FS_DELETE from pseudo and clustered filesystems need more time
> > > > > to find regressions (we do not have test coverage for those in LTP).
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Something like this:
> > > > https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/fsnotify_nameremove
> > > >
> > > > Only partially tested. Obviously haven't tested all callers.
> > >
> > > Not quite. I'd add the fsnotify_nameremove() call also to simple_rmdir()
> > > and simple_unlink(). That takes care of:
> > > arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c, drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c,
> > > fs/configfs/dir.c, fs/debugfs/inode.c, fs/tracefs/inode.c,
> > > net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
> > >
> >
> > simple_unlink() is used as i_op->unlink() implementation of simple
> > filesystems, such as: fs/pstore/inode.c fs/ramfs/inode.c
> > fs/ocfs2/dlmfs/dlmfs.c fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c kernel/bpf/inode.c
> >
> > If we place fsnotify hook in the filesystem implementation and not
> > in vfs_unlink(), what will cover normal fs? If we do place fsnotify hook
> > in vfs_unlink(), then we have a double call to hook.
> >
> > The places we add explicit fsnofity hooks should only be call sites that
> > do not originate from vfs_unlink/vfs_rmdir.
>
> Hum, right. I didn't realize simple_unlink() gets also called through
> vfs_unlink() for some filesystems. But then I'd rather create variants
> simple_unlink_notify() and simple_rmdir_notify() than messing with
> d_delete(). As I just think that fsnotify call in d_delete() happens at a
> wrong layer. d_delete() is about dcache management, not really about
> filesystem name removal which is what we want to notify about.
>

Agreed.
I'll follow up with this solution, hopefully after the stable regression
fix is already merged.

Thanks,
Amir.



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