freebsd-dev/share/man/man9/vgone.9
Mateusz Guzik abd80ddb94 vfs: introduce v_irflag and make v_type smaller
The current vnode layout is not smp-friendly by having frequently read data
avoidably sharing cachelines with very frequently modified fields. In
particular v_iflag inspected for VI_DOOMED can be found in the same line with
v_usecount. Instead make it available in the same cacheline as the v_op, v_data
and v_type which all get read all the time.

v_type is avoidably 4 bytes while the necessary data will easily fit in 1.
Shrinking it frees up 3 bytes, 2 of which get used here to introduce a new
flag field with a new value: VIRF_DOOMED.

Reviewed by:	kib, jeff
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22715
2019-12-08 21:30:04 +00:00

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.Dd December 8, 2019
.Dt VGONE 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vgone
.Nd "prepare a vnode for reuse"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In sys/vnode.h
.Ft void
.Fn vgone "struct vnode *vp"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn vgone
function prepares the vnode to be destroyed.
The preparation includes the cleaning of all file system specific data and
the removal from its mount point vnode list.
.Pp
If the vnode has a
.Va v_usecount
of zero, and its
.Dv VIRF_DOOMED
flag is not set, it is moved to the head of the free list
as in most cases the vnode
is about to be reused, or its file system is being unmounted.
.Pp
The
.Fn vgone
function takes an exclusively locked vnode, and returns with the vnode
exclusively locked.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr vnode 9
.Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca .