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Message-ID: <3fa7c6c4-d9e4-4233-93a7-12e5d34ee4d0@intel.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:01:09 +0800
From: "Ma, Yu" <yu.ma@...el.com>
To: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
Cc: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, brauner@...nel.org, jack@...e.cz,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com, tim.c.chen@...el.com, pan.deng@...el.com,
tianyou.li@...el.com, yu.ma@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fs/file.c: add fast path in alloc_fd()
On 6/15/2024 2:31 PM, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 12:34:14PM -0400, Yu Ma wrote:
>> There is available fd in the lower 64 bits of open_fds bitmap for most cases
>> when we look for an available fd slot. Skip 2-levels searching via
>> find_next_zero_bit() for this common fast path.
>>
>> Look directly for an open bit in the lower 64 bits of open_fds bitmap when a
>> free slot is available there, as:
>> (1) The fd allocation algorithm would always allocate fd from small to large.
>> Lower bits in open_fds bitmap would be used much more frequently than higher
>> bits.
>> (2) After fdt is expanded (the bitmap size doubled for each time of expansion),
>> it would never be shrunk. The search size increases but there are few open fds
>> available here.
>> (3) There is fast path inside of find_next_zero_bit() when size<=64 to speed up
>> searching.
>>
>> With the fast path added in alloc_fd() through one-time bitmap searching,
>> pts/blogbench-1.1.0 read is improved by 20% and write by 10% on Intel ICX 160
>> cores configuration with v6.8-rc6.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yu Ma <yu.ma@...el.com>
>> ---
>> fs/file.c | 9 +++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
>> index 3b683b9101d8..e8d2f9ef7fd1 100644
>> --- a/fs/file.c
>> +++ b/fs/file.c
>> @@ -510,8 +510,13 @@ static int alloc_fd(unsigned start, unsigned end, unsigned flags)
>> if (fd < files->next_fd)
>> fd = files->next_fd;
>>
>> - if (fd < fdt->max_fds)
>> + if (fd < fdt->max_fds) {
>> + if (~fdt->open_fds[0]) {
>> + fd = find_next_zero_bit(fdt->open_fds, BITS_PER_LONG, fd);
>> + goto success;
>> + }
>> fd = find_next_fd(fdt, fd);
>> + }
>>
>> /*
>> * N.B. For clone tasks sharing a files structure, this test
>> @@ -531,7 +536,7 @@ static int alloc_fd(unsigned start, unsigned end, unsigned flags)
>> */
>> if (error)
>> goto repeat;
>> -
>> +success:
>> if (start <= files->next_fd)
>> files->next_fd = fd + 1;
>>
> As indicated in my other e-mail it may be a process can reach a certain
> fd number and then lower its rlimit(NOFILE). In that case the max_fds
> field can happen to be higher and the above patch will fail to check for
> the (fd < end) case.
Thanks for the good catch, replied in that mail thread for details.
>
>> --
>> 2.43.0
>>
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