linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs: use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir

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Message-ID: <20250316232421.1642758-1-mjguzik@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:24:21 +0100
From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
To: brauner@...nel.org
Cc: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	jack@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fs: use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir_add()

The routine is used a lot, while the wakeup almost never has anyone to
deal with.

wake_up_all() takes an irq-protected spinlock, wq_has_sleeper() "only"
contains a full fence -- not free by any means, but still cheaper.

Sample result tracing waiters using a custom probe during -j 20 kernel
build (0 - no waiters, 1 - waiters):

@[
    wakeprobe+5
    __wake_up_common+63
    __wake_up+54
    __d_add+234
    d_splice_alias+146
    ext4_lookup+439
    path_openat+1746
    do_filp_open+195
    do_sys_openat2+153
    __x64_sys_openat+86
    do_syscall_64+82
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+118
]:
[0, 1)             13999 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[1, ...)               1 |                                                    |

So that 14000 calls in total from this backtrace, where only one time
had a waiter.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
---
 fs/dcache.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index df8833fe9986..bd5aa136153a 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2497,7 +2497,8 @@ static inline void end_dir_add(struct inode *dir, unsigned int n,
 {
 	smp_store_release(&dir->i_dir_seq, n + 2);
 	preempt_enable_nested();
-	wake_up_all(d_wait);
+	if (wq_has_sleeper(d_wait))
+		wake_up_all(d_wait);
 }
 
 static void d_wait_lookup(struct dentry *dentry)
-- 
2.43.0