[PATCH v1 09/11] locks: turn the blocked_list into a hashtable

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Fri May 31 2013 - 23:10:28 EST


Break up the blocked_list into a hashtable, using the fl_owner as a key.
This speeds up searching the hash chains, which is especially significant
for deadlock detection.

Note that the initial implementation assumes that hashing on fl_owner is
sufficient. In most cases it should be, with the notable exception being
server-side lockd, which compares ownership using a tuple of the
nlm_host and the pid sent in the lock request. So, this may degrade to a
single hash bucket when you only have a single NFS client. That will be
addressed in a later patch.

The careful observer may note that this patch leaves the file_lock_list
alone. There's much less of a case for turning the file_lock_list into a
hashtable. The only user of that list is the code that generates
/proc/locks, and it always walks the entire list.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/locks.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
index 5ed056b..0d030ce 100644
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/hashtable.h>

#include <asm/uaccess.h>

@@ -163,10 +164,19 @@ int lease_break_time = 45;
#define for_each_lock(inode, lockp) \
for (lockp = &inode->i_flock; *lockp != NULL; lockp = &(*lockp)->fl_next)

+/*
+ * By breaking up the blocked locks list into a hashtable, we speed up the
+ * deadlock detection.
+ *
+ * FIXME: make this value scale via some heuristic?
+ */
+#define BLOCKED_HASH_BITS 7
+
+static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(blocked_hash, BLOCKED_HASH_BITS);
+
static HLIST_HEAD(file_lock_list);
-static HLIST_HEAD(blocked_list);

-/* Protects the two list heads above */
+/* Protects the file_lock_list and the blocked_hash */
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(file_lock_lock);

static struct kmem_cache *filelock_cache __read_mostly;
@@ -486,7 +496,8 @@ static inline void
locks_insert_global_blocked(struct file_lock *waiter)
{
spin_lock(&file_lock_lock);
- hlist_add_head(&waiter->fl_link, &blocked_list);
+ hash_add(blocked_hash, &waiter->fl_link,
+ (unsigned long)waiter->fl_owner);
spin_unlock(&file_lock_lock);
}

@@ -494,7 +505,7 @@ static inline void
locks_delete_global_blocked(struct file_lock *waiter)
{
spin_lock(&file_lock_lock);
- hlist_del_init(&waiter->fl_link);
+ hash_del(&waiter->fl_link);
spin_unlock(&file_lock_lock);
}

@@ -705,7 +716,7 @@ static struct file_lock *what_owner_is_waiting_for(struct file_lock *block_fl)
{
struct file_lock *fl, *ret = NULL;

- hlist_for_each_entry(fl, &blocked_list, fl_link) {
+ hash_for_each_possible(blocked_hash, fl, fl_link, (unsigned long)block_fl->fl_owner) {
if (posix_same_owner(fl, block_fl)) {
ret = fl->fl_next;
if (likely(ret))
@@ -2275,13 +2286,14 @@ static void lock_get_status(struct seq_file *f, struct file_lock *fl,

static int locks_show(struct seq_file *f, void *v)
{
+ int bkt;
struct file_lock *fl, *bfl;

fl = hlist_entry(v, struct file_lock, fl_link);

lock_get_status(f, fl, *((loff_t *)f->private), "");

- hlist_for_each_entry(bfl, &blocked_list, fl_link) {
+ hash_for_each(blocked_hash, bkt, bfl, fl_link) {
if (bfl->fl_next == fl)
lock_get_status(f, bfl, *((loff_t *)f->private), " ->");
}
--
1.7.1

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