netdev - [PATCH 5/6] fs: Introduce special inodes

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Message-ID: <492DDC99.5060106@cosmosbay.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:32:41 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] fs: Introduce special inodes

Goal of this patch is to not touch inode_lock for socket/pipes/anonfd
 inodes allocation/freeing.

 In new_inode(), we test if super block has MS_SPECIAL flag set.
 If yes, we dont put inode in "inode_in_use" list nor "sb->s_inodes" list
 As inode_lock was taken only to protect these lists, we avoid it as well

 Using iput_special() from dput_special() avoids taking inode_lock
 at freeing time.

 This patch has a very noticeable effect, because we avoid dirtying 
 of three contended cache lines in new_inode(), and five cache lines
 in iput()

Note: Not sure if we can use MS_SPECIAL=MS_NOUSER, or if we
really need a different flag.

(socket8 bench result : from 20.5s to 2.94s) 

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
---

 fs/anon_inodes.c   |    1 +
 fs/dcache.c        |    2 +-
 fs/inode.c         |   25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
 fs/pipe.c          |    3 ++-
 include/linux/fs.h |    2 ++
 net/socket.c       |    1 +
 6 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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