dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks

With the dentry LRUs being per-sb structures, there is no real need for
a global dentry_lru_lock. The locking can be made more fine-grained by
moving to a per-sb LRU lock, isolating the LRU operations of different
filesytsems completely from each other. The need for this is independent
of any performance consideration that may arise: in the interest of
abstracting the lru operations away, it is mandatory that each lru works
around its own lock instead of a global lock for all of them.

[[email protected]: updated changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <[email protected]>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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Dave Chinner 2013-08-28 10:17:55 +10:00 • committed by Al Viro
commit 19156840e3
3 changed files with 20 additions and 18 deletions

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@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type, int flags)
INIT_HLIST_BL_HEAD(&s->s_anon);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inodes);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_dentry_lru);
spin_lock_init(&s->s_dentry_lru_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inode_lru);
spin_lock_init(&s->s_inode_lru_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_mounts);