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autofs4: allow RCU-walk to walk through autofs4

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This series teaches autofs about RCU-walk so that we don't drop straight
into REF-walk when we hit an autofs directory, and so that we avoid
spinlocks as much as possible when performing an RCU-walk.

This is needed so that the benefits of the recent NFS support for
RCU-walk are fully available when NFS filesystems are automounted.

Patches have been carefully reviewed and tested both with test suites
and in production - thanks a lot to Ian Kent for his support there.

This patch (of 6):

Any attempt to look up a pathname that passes though an autofs4 mount is
currently forced out of RCU-walk into REF-walk.

This can significantly hurt performance of many-thread work loads on
many-core systems, especially if the automounted filesystem supports
RCU-walk but doesn't get to benefit from it.

So if autofs4_d_manage is called with rcu_walk set, only fail with -ECHILD
if it is necessary to wait longer than a spinlock.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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NeilBrown
2014-10-13 15:52:14 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8a273345dc
commit 23bfc2a24e
4 changed files with 34 additions and 18 deletions
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fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
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@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ void autofs4_free_ino(struct autofs_info *);
/* Expiration */
int is_autofs4_dentry(struct dentry *);
int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *dentry);
int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *dentry, int rcu_walk);
int autofs4_expire_run(struct super_block *, struct vfsmount *,
struct autofs_sb_info *,
struct autofs_packet_expire __user *);