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Patch to eliminate struct files_struct.file_lock spinlock on the reader side and use rcu refcounting rcuref_xxx api for the f_count refcounter. The updates to the fdtable are done by allocating a new fdtable structure and setting files->fdt to point to the new structure. The fdtable structure is protected by RCU thereby allowing lock-free lookup. For fd arrays/sets that are vmalloced, we use keventd to free them since RCU callbacks can't sleep. A global list of fdtable to be freed is not scalable, so we use a per-cpu list. If keventd is already handling the current cpu's work, we use a timer to defer queueing of that work. Since the last publication, this patch has been re-written to avoid using explicit memory barriers and use rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference() premitives instead. This required that the fd information is kept in a separate structure (fdtable) and updated atomically. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |
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irq | ||
power | ||
acct.c | ||
audit.c | ||
auditsc.c | ||
capability.c | ||
compat.c | ||
configs.c | ||
cpu.c | ||
cpuset.c | ||
crash_dump.c | ||
dma.c | ||
exec_domain.c | ||
exit.c | ||
extable.c | ||
fork.c | ||
futex.c | ||
intermodule.c | ||
itimer.c | ||
kallsyms.c | ||
Kconfig.hz | ||
Kconfig.preempt | ||
kexec.c | ||
kfifo.c | ||
kmod.c | ||
kprobes.c | ||
ksysfs.c | ||
kthread.c | ||
Makefile | ||
module.c | ||
panic.c | ||
params.c | ||
pid.c | ||
posix-cpu-timers.c | ||
posix-timers.c | ||
printk.c | ||
profile.c | ||
ptrace.c | ||
rcupdate.c | ||
resource.c | ||
sched.c | ||
seccomp.c | ||
signal.c | ||
softirq.c | ||
softlockup.c | ||
spinlock.c | ||
stop_machine.c | ||
sys_ni.c | ||
sys.c | ||
sysctl.c | ||
time.c | ||
timer.c | ||
uid16.c | ||
user.c | ||
wait.c | ||
workqueue.c |