From 529bf6be5c04f2e869d07bfdb122e9fd98ade714 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dipankar Sarma Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:55:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] fix file counting I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc. The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up with a very fragmented slab - llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 587730 0 758844 At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following patch I fixes this problem. This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock. Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user. Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/file.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/file.h') diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h index 418b6101b59a..9901b850f2e4 100644 --- a/include/linux/file.h +++ b/include/linux/file.h @@ -60,8 +60,6 @@ extern void put_filp(struct file *); extern int get_unused_fd(void); extern void FASTCALL(put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd)); struct kmem_cache; -extern void filp_ctor(void * objp, struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long cflags); -extern void filp_dtor(void * objp, struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long dflags); extern struct file ** alloc_fd_array(int); extern void free_fd_array(struct file **, int); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2