fix quadratic behavior of shrink_dcache_parent()

The time shrink_dcache_parent() takes, grows quadratically with the depth
of the tree under 'parent'.  This starts to get noticable at about 10,000.

These kinds of depths don't occur normally, and filesystems which invoke
shrink_dcache_parent() via d_invalidate() seem to have other depth
dependent timings, so it's not even easy to expose this problem.

However with FUSE it's easy to create a deep tree and d_invalidate()
will also get called.  This can make a syscall hang for a very long
time.

This is the original discovery of the problem by Russ Cox:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel/3826

The following patch fixes the quadratic behavior, by optionally allowing
prune_dcache() to prune ancestors of a dentry in one go, instead of doing
it one at a time.

Common code in dput() and prune_one_dentry() is extracted into a new helper
function d_kill().

shrink_dcache_parent() as well as shrink_dcache_sb() are converted to use
the ancestry-pruner option.  Only for shrink_dcache_memory() is this
behavior not desirable, so it keeps using the old algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index d1bf5d8aeb5a98a3f1d6ea3289897617b802165e..681cab81b454ae82f61d2e56074eb0e18d910612 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -121,6 +121,28 @@ static void dentry_iput(struct dentry * dentry)
        }
 }
 
+/**
+ * d_kill - kill dentry and return parent
+ * @dentry: dentry to kill
+ *
+ * Called with dcache_lock and d_lock, releases both.  The dentry must
+ * already be unhashed and removed from the LRU.
+ *
+ * If this is the root of the dentry tree, return NULL.
+ */
+static struct dentry *d_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+       struct dentry *parent;
+
+       list_del(&dentry->d_u.d_child);
+       dentry_stat.nr_dentry--;        /* For d_free, below */
+       /*drops the locks, at that point nobody can reach this dentry */
+       dentry_iput(dentry);
+       parent = dentry->d_parent;
+       d_free(dentry);
+       return dentry == parent ? NULL : parent;
+}
+
 /* 
  * This is dput
  *
@@ -189,28 +211,17 @@ repeat:
 
 unhash_it:
        __d_drop(dentry);
-
-kill_it: {
-               struct dentry *parent;
-
-               /* If dentry was on d_lru list
-                * delete it from there
-                */
-               if (!list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) {
-                       list_del(&dentry->d_lru);
-                       dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
-               }
-               list_del(&dentry->d_u.d_child);
-               dentry_stat.nr_dentry--;        /* For d_free, below */
-               /*drops the locks, at that point nobody can reach this dentry */
-               dentry_iput(dentry);
-               parent = dentry->d_parent;
-               d_free(dentry);
-               if (dentry == parent)
-                       return;
-               dentry = parent;
-               goto repeat;
+kill_it:
+       /* If dentry was on d_lru list
+        * delete it from there
+        */
+       if (!list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) {
+               list_del(&dentry->d_lru);
+               dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
        }
+       dentry = d_kill(dentry);
+       if (dentry)
+               goto repeat;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -371,22 +382,40 @@ restart:
  * Throw away a dentry - free the inode, dput the parent.  This requires that
  * the LRU list has already been removed.
  *
+ * If prune_parents is true, try to prune ancestors as well.
+ *
  * Called with dcache_lock, drops it and then regains.
  * Called with dentry->d_lock held, drops it.
  */
-static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry)
+static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry, int prune_parents)
 {
-       struct dentry * parent;
-
        __d_drop(dentry);
-       list_del(&dentry->d_u.d_child);
-       dentry_stat.nr_dentry--;        /* For d_free, below */
-       dentry_iput(dentry);
-       parent = dentry->d_parent;
-       d_free(dentry);
-       if (parent != dentry)
-               dput(parent);
+       dentry = d_kill(dentry);
+       if (!prune_parents) {
+               dput(dentry);
+               spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
+               return;
+       }
+
+       /*
+        * Prune ancestors.  Locking is simpler than in dput(),
+        * because dcache_lock needs to be taken anyway.
+        */
        spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
+       while (dentry) {
+               if (!atomic_dec_and_lock(&dentry->d_count, &dentry->d_lock))
+                       return;
+
+               if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_delete)
+                       dentry->d_op->d_delete(dentry);
+               if (!list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) {
+                       list_del(&dentry->d_lru);
+                       dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
+               }
+               __d_drop(dentry);
+               dentry = d_kill(dentry);
+               spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
+       }
 }
 
 /**
@@ -394,6 +423,7 @@ static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry)
  * @count: number of entries to try and free
  * @sb: if given, ignore dentries for other superblocks
  *         which are being unmounted.
+ * @prune_parents: if true, try to prune ancestors as well in one go
  *
  * Shrink the dcache. This is done when we need
  * more memory, or simply when we need to unmount
@@ -404,7 +434,7 @@ static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry)
  * all the dentries are in use.
  */
  
-static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb)
+static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb, int prune_parents)
 {
        spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
        for (; count ; count--) {
@@ -464,7 +494,7 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb)
                 * without taking the s_umount lock (I already hold it).
                 */
                if (sb && dentry->d_sb == sb) {
-                       prune_one_dentry(dentry);
+                       prune_one_dentry(dentry, prune_parents);
                        continue;
                }
                /*
@@ -479,7 +509,7 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb)
                s_umount = &dentry->d_sb->s_umount;
                if (down_read_trylock(s_umount)) {
                        if (dentry->d_sb->s_root != NULL) {
-                               prune_one_dentry(dentry);
+                               prune_one_dentry(dentry, prune_parents);
                                up_read(s_umount);
                                continue;
                        }
@@ -550,7 +580,7 @@ repeat:
                        spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
                        continue;
                }
-               prune_one_dentry(dentry);
+               prune_one_dentry(dentry, 1);
                cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock);
                goto repeat;
        }
@@ -829,7 +859,7 @@ void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry * parent)
        int found;
 
        while ((found = select_parent(parent)) != 0)
-               prune_dcache(found, parent->d_sb);
+               prune_dcache(found, parent->d_sb, 1);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -849,7 +879,7 @@ static int shrink_dcache_memory(int nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
        if (nr) {
                if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
                        return -1;
-               prune_dcache(nr, NULL);
+               prune_dcache(nr, NULL, 0);
        }
        return (dentry_stat.nr_unused / 100) * sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure;
 }