GFS2: Use RCU for glock hash table

This has a number of advantages:

 - Reduces contention on the hash table lock
 - Makes the code smaller and simpler
 - Should speed up glock dumps when under load
 - Removes ref count changing in examine_bucket
 - No longer need hash chain lock in glock_put() in common case

There are some further changes which this enables and which
we may do in the future. One is to look at using SLAB_RCU,
and another is to look at using a per-cpu counter for the
per-sb glock counter, since that is touched twice in the
lifetime of each glock (but only used at umount time).

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Steven Whitehouse
2011-01-19 09:30:01 +00:00
parent 2b1caf6ed7
commit bc015cb841
8 changed files with 190 additions and 297 deletions

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@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ static void gfs2_unpin(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct buffer_head *bh,
}
bd->bd_ail = ai;
list_add(&bd->bd_ail_st_list, &ai->ai_ail1_list);
clear_bit(GLF_LFLUSH, &bd->bd_gl->gl_flags);
if (test_and_clear_bit(GLF_LFLUSH, &bd->bd_gl->gl_flags))
gfs2_glock_schedule_for_reclaim(bd->bd_gl);
trace_gfs2_pin(bd, 0);
gfs2_log_unlock(sdp);
unlock_buffer(bh);