Hi, At first, thank you for the report and please follow the email writing rules. :) Anyway, I agree to the below issue. One thing that I can think of is that we don't need to use the spin_lock, since we don't care about the exact lock number, but just need to get any not-collided number. So, how about removing the spin_lock? And how about using a random number? Thanks, 2013-09-06 (금), 09:48 +0000, Chao Yu: > Hi Kim: > > I think there is a performance problem: when all sbi->fs_lock is > holded, > > then all other threads may get the same next_lock value from > sbi->next_lock_num in function mutex_lock_op, > > and wait to get the same lock at position fs_lock[next_lock], it > unbalance the fs_lock usage. > > It may lost performance when we do the multithread test. > > > > Here is the patch to fix this problem: > > > > Signed-off-by: Yu Chao <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h > > old mode 100644 > > new mode 100755 > > index 467d42d..983bb45 > > --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h > > +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h > > @@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info { > > struct mutex fs_lock[NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS]; /* blocking FS > operations */ > > struct mutex node_write; /* locking node writes > */ > > struct mutex writepages; /* mutex for > writepages() */ > > + spinlock_t spin_lock; /* lock for > next_lock_num */ > > unsigned char next_lock_num; /* round-robin global > locks */ > > int por_doing; /* recovery is doing > or not */ > > int on_build_free_nids; /* build_free_nids is > doing */ > > @@ -533,15 +534,19 @@ static inline void mutex_unlock_all(struct > f2fs_sb_info *sbi) > > > > static inline int mutex_lock_op(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi) > > { > > - unsigned char next_lock = sbi->next_lock_num % > NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS; > > + unsigned char next_lock; > > int i = 0; > > > > for (; i < NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS; i++) > > if (mutex_trylock(&sbi->fs_lock[i])) > > return i; > > > > - mutex_lock(&sbi->fs_lock[next_lock]); > > + spin_lock(&sbi->spin_lock); > > + next_lock = sbi->next_lock_num % NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS; > > sbi->next_lock_num++; > > + spin_unlock(&sbi->spin_lock); > > + > > + mutex_lock(&sbi->fs_lock[next_lock]); > > return next_lock; > > } > > > > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c > > old mode 100644 > > new mode 100755 > > index 75c7dc3..4f27596 > > --- a/fs/f2fs/super.c > > +++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c > > @@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ static int f2fs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, > void *data, int silent) > > mutex_init(&sbi->cp_mutex); > > for (i = 0; i < NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS; i++) > > mutex_init(&sbi->fs_lock[i]); > > + spin_lock_init(&sbi->spin_lock); > > mutex_init(&sbi->node_write); > > sbi->por_doing = 0; > > spin_lock_init(&sbi->stat_lock); > > (END) > > > > > > -- Jaegeuk Kim Samsung -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html