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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:35:51 -0400
From:	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>
To:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@....com>,
	Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@....com>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/5] vfs: Use dlock list for SB's s_inodes list

v3->v4:
 - As suggested by Al, encapsulate the dlock list mechanism into
   the dlist_for_each_entry() and dlist_for_each_entry_safe()
   which are the equivalent of list_for_each_entry() and
   list_for_each_entry_safe() for regular linked list. That simplifies
   the changes in the call sites that perform dlock list iterations.
 - Add a new patch to make the percpu head structure cacheline aligned
   to prevent cacheline contention from disrupting the performance
   of nearby percpu variables.

v2->v3:
 - Remove the 2 persubnode API patches.
 - Merge __percpu tag patch 2 into patch 1.
 - As suggested by Tejun Heo, restructure the dlock_list_head data
   structure to hide the __percpu tag and rename some of the functions
   and structures.
 - Move most of the code from dlock_list.h to dlock_list.c and export
   the symbols.

v1->v2:
 - Add a set of simple per-subnode APIs that is between percpu and
   per-node in granularity.
 - Make dlock list to use the per-subnode APIs so as to reduce the
   total number of separate linked list that needs to be managed
   and iterated.
 - There is no change in patches 1-5.

This is a follow up of the following patchset:

  [PATCH v7 0/4] vfs: Use per-cpu list for SB's s_inodes list
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/12/1009

The main change is the renaming of percpu list to dlock list, as
suggested by Christoph Lameter. It also adds a new patch from Boqun
Feng to add the __percpu modifier for parameters.

Patch 1 introduces the dlock list.

Patch 2 cleans up the fsnotify_unmount_inodes() function by making
the code simpler and more standard.

Patch 3 replaces the use of list_for_each_entry_safe() in
evict_inodes() and invalidate_inodes() by list_for_each_entry().

Patch 4 modifies the superblock and inode structures to use the dlock
list. The corresponding functions that reference those structures
are modified.

Patch 5 changes the percpu head structures allocation to make them
cacheline-aligned to avoid hurting performance of other nearby percpu
variables.

Jan Kara (2):
  fsnotify: Simplify inode iteration on umount
  vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() variants

Waiman Long (3):
  lib/dlock-list: Distributed and lock-protected lists
  vfs: Use dlock list for superblock's inode list
  lib/dlock-list: Allow cacheline alignment of percpu head

 fs/block_dev.c             |    9 +-
 fs/drop_caches.c           |    9 +-
 fs/fs-writeback.c          |    9 +-
 fs/inode.c                 |   38 +++----
 fs/notify/inode_mark.c     |   52 ++-------
 fs/quota/dquot.c           |   14 +--
 fs/super.c                 |    7 +-
 include/linux/dlock-list.h |  242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/fs.h         |    8 +-
 lib/Makefile               |    2 +-
 lib/dlock-list.c           |  198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 11 files changed, 494 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/dlock-list.h
 create mode 100644 lib/dlock-list.c