parent vnode and relock it after locking child vnode. The problem was that
we always relock it exclusively, even when it was share-locked.
Discussed with: jeff
and flags with an sxlock. This leads to a significant and measurable
performance improvement as a result of access to shared locking for
frequent lookup operations, reduced general overhead, and reduced overhead
in the event of contention. All of these are imported for threaded
applications where simultaneous access to a shared file descriptor array
occurs frequently. Kris has reported 2x-4x transaction rate improvements
on 8-core MySQL benchmarks; smaller improvements can be expected for many
workloads as a result of reduced overhead.
- Generally eliminate the distinction between "fast" and regular
acquisisition of the filedesc lock; the plan is that they will now all
be fast. Change all locking instances to either shared or exclusive
locks.
- Correct a bug (pointed out by kib) in fdfree() where previously msleep()
was called without the mutex held; sx_sleep() is now always called with
the sxlock held exclusively.
- Universally hold the struct file lock over changes to struct file,
rather than the filedesc lock or no lock. Always update the f_ops
field last. A further memory barrier is required here in the future
(discussed with jhb).
- Improve locking and reference management in linux_at(), which fails to
properly acquire vnode references before using vnode pointers. Annotate
improper use of vn_fullpath(), which will be replaced at a future date.
In fcntl(), we conservatively acquire an exclusive lock, even though in
some cases a shared lock may be sufficient, which should be revisited.
The dropping of the filedesc lock in fdgrowtable() is no longer required
as the sxlock can be held over the sleep operation; we should consider
removing that (pointed out by attilio).
Tested by: kris
Discussed with: jhb, kris, attilio, jeff
- Remove also "MP SAFE" after prior "MPSAFE" pass. (suggested by bde)
- Remove extra blank lines in some cases.
- Add extra blank lines in some cases.
- Remove no-op comments consisting solely of the function name, the word
"syscall", or the system call name.
- Add punctuation.
- Re-wrap some comments.
filesystem agnostic. We are not touching any file system specific functions
in this code path. Since we have a cache lock, there is really no need to
keep Giant around here.
This eliminates Giant acquisitions for any syscall which is auditing pathnames.
Discussed with: jeff
cache_zap() to clear the v_dd pointers when a directory vnode is forcibly
discarded. For this to work, all vnodes with v_dd pointers to a directory
must also have name cache entries linked via v_cache_dst to that dvp
otherwise we could not find them at cache_purge() time. The following
code snipit could break this guarantee by unlinking a directory before
fetching it's dotdot. The dotdot lookup would initialize the v_dd field
of the unlinked directory which could never be cleared. To fix this
we don't initialize v_dd for orphaned vnodes.
printf("rmdir: %d\n", rmdir("../foo")); /* foo is cwd */
printf("chdir: %d\n", chdir(".."));
printf("%s\n", getwd(NULL));
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
Discovered by: kkenn
Approved by: re (blanket vfs)
vnodes whose names it caches, so we no longer need a `generation
number' to tell us if a referenced vnode is invalid. Replace the use
of the parent's v_id in the hash function with the address of the
parent vnode.
Tested by: Peter Holm
Glanced at by: jeff, phk
except for places where people forget to update one of them. We now
collect only one set of stats for both of these routines. Other
changes in this commit include:
- Start acquiring Giant again in vn_fullpath(), since it is required
when crossing a mount point.
- Expand the scope of the cache lock to avoid dropping it and
picking it up again for every pathname component. This also
makes it trivial to avoid races in stats collection.
- Assert that nc_dvp == v_dd for directories instead of returning
an error to userland when this is not true. AFAIK, it should
always be true when v_dd is non-null.
- For vn_fullpath(), handle the first (non-directory) vnode
separately.
Glanced at by: jeff, phk
to cache_lookup(). This allows us to acquire the vnode interlock before
dropping the cache lock. This protects the vnodes identity until we
have locked it.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
config option have now been fixed. All filesystems are properly locked
and checked via DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS. Remove the workaround code.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
vnode lock is much simpler than I originally thought it would be.
Now, the cache lock is always acquired before the vnode lock.
- Provide some gotos in __getcwd() to simplify the unlocking a bit.
- Move Giant acquisition down into __getcwd().
Sponsored By: Isilon Systems, Inc.
small but noticeable increase in performance for name lookup operations.
The code uses two zones, one for short names (less than 32 characters)
and one for long names (up to NAME_MAX). Since most file names are
fairly short, this saves a considerable amount of space that would
otherwise be wasted if we always allocated NAME_MAX bytes. The cutoff
value of 32 characters was picked arbitrarily and may benefit from some
tweaking; it could also be made into a tunable.
Submitted by: hmp
but I decided that it was important for this patch to not bit-rot, and
since it is mainly moving code around, the total amount of entropy is
epsilon /phk)
This is a patch to move the common parts of linux_getcwd() back into
kern/vfs_cache.c so that the standard FreeBSD libc getcwd() can use it's
extended functionality. The linux syscall linux_getcwd() in
compat/linux/linux_getcwd.c has been rewritten to use it too. It should
be possible to simplify libc's getcwd() after this. No doubt this code
needs some cleaning up, since I've left in the sysctl variables I used
for debugging.
PR: 48169
Submitted by: James Whitwell <abacau@yahoo.com.au>
- v_vflag is protected by the vnode lock and is used when synchronization
with VOP calls is needed.
- v_iflag is protected by interlock and is used for dealing with vnode
management issues. These flags include X/O LOCK, FREE, DOOMED, etc.
- All accesses to v_iflag and v_vflag have either been locked or marked with
mp_fixme's.
- Many ASSERT_VOP_LOCKED calls have been added where the locking was not
clear.
- Many functions in vfs_subr.c were restructured to provide for stronger
locking.
Idea stolen from: BSD/OS
behavior by default. Also, change the options line to reflect this.
If there are no problems reported this will become the only behavior and the
knob will be removed in a month or so.
Demanded by: obrien
The stat() and open() calls have been changed to make use of this new functionality. Using shared locks in
these cases is sufficient and can significantly reduce their latency if IO is pending to these vnodes. Also,
this reduces the number of exclusive locks that are floating around in the system, which helps reduce the
number of deadlocks that occur.
A new kernel option "LOOKUP_SHARED" has been added. It defaults to off so this patch can be turned on for
testing, and should eventually go away once it is proven to be stable. I have personally been running this
patch for over a year now, so it is believed to be fully stable.
Reviewed by: jake, obrien
Approved by: jake
Includes some minor whitespace changes, and re-ordering to be able to document
properly (e.g, grouping of variables and the SYSCTL macro calls for them, where
the documentation has been added.)
Reviewed by: phk (but all errors are mine)
