linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove sb->s_files and file_list

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0702081315060.1364@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:22:22 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, jack@...e.cz,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove sb->s_files and file_list_lock usage in dquot.c


On Feb 7 2007 19:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:03:05PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>> With filesystems that can turn on their quota after mount time (about 
>> every fs except xfs), I can surely have a ton of files open, and hence, 
>> if I understand correctly, have lots of inodes instantiated.
>
>Yes, you can in theory.  But turning on quota on a filesystem in full
>steam useage is not a common use case and thus there is no point in
>optimizing for it.

I put it to a test in a default scenario (quotaon sometime at boot).
SUSE Linux 10.1 with reiserfs(usrquota,grpquota).
This is the result:

add_dquot_ref: 30 files in sb->s_files for hda2
add_dquot_ref: Restarting after 12 files
add_dquot_ref: 30 files in sb->s_files for hda2
add_dquot_ref: Restarted 1 times
add_dquot_ref: 30 files in sb->s_files for hda2
add_dquot_ref: Restarting after 12 files
add_dquot_ref: 30 files in sb->s_files for hda2
add_dquot_ref: Restarted 1 times

Surprisingly few. I had expected to see more instantiated (but not necessarily
open) files.

Patch for reference:

Index: 18/fs/dquot.c
===================================================================
--- 18.orig/fs/dquot.c
+++ 18/fs/dquot.c
@@ -689,22 +689,35 @@ static int dqinit_needed(struct inode *i
 static void add_dquot_ref(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 {
 	struct list_head *p;
+        int restart = 0;
+        int num_files;
 
 restart:
 	file_list_lock();
+        num_files = 0;
+        list_for_each(p, &sb->s_files) {
+            ++num_files;
+        }
+        printk(KERN_WARNING "add_dquot_ref: %d files in sb->s_files for %s\n",
+            num_files, sb->s_id);
+        num_files = 0;
 	list_for_each(p, &sb->s_files) {
 		struct file *filp = list_entry(p, struct file, f_u.fu_list);
 		struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
+                ++num_files;
 		if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE && dqinit_needed(inode, type)) {
 			struct dentry *dentry = dget(filp->f_dentry);
 			file_list_unlock();
 			sb->dq_op->initialize(inode, type);
 			dput(dentry);
 			/* As we may have blocked we had better restart... */
+                        printk(KERN_WARNING "add_dquot_ref: Restarting after %d files\n", num_files);
+                        ++restart;
 			goto restart;
 		}
 	}
 	file_list_unlock();
+        printk(KERN_WARNING "add_dquot_ref: Restarted %d times\n", restart);
 }
 
 /* Return 0 if dqput() won't block (note that 1 doesn't necessarily mean blocking) */


BTW, whilst looking for the function to return a readable name, I came
across reiserfs_bdevname() and bdevname(). The former uses sb->s_id, the
latter struct gendisk->hd_name+partition number.
Could someone elaborate on why there are two ways?


Jan
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