The file is a mess with a hand-rolled linked list in a desperate need of
a clean up.
The code to emit /proc/filesystems is used frequently because libselinux
reads the file, which in turn is linked into numerous frequently used
programs (even ones you would not suspect, like sed!). In order to
combat that pre-gen the string instead of pointer-chasing and printfing
one by-one.
open+read+close cycle single-threaded (ops/s):
before: 442732
after: 1063462 (+140%)
Additionally scalability is also improved thanks to bypassing ref
maintenance on open/close.
open+read+close cycle with 20 processes (ops/s):
before: 606177
after: 3300576 (+444%)
The main bottleneck afterwards is the spurious lockref trip on open.
v4:
- add missing unlocks in some corner cases
- whitespace touch ups
- s/smp_store_release/rcu_assign_pointer/ [nop, the macro expands to the same thing]
- mark file_systems_string as __read_mostly
Alexey Dobriyan (1):
proc: allow to mark /proc files permanent outside of fs/proc/
Christian Brauner (1):
fs: RCU-ify filesystems list
Mateusz Guzik (1):
fs: cache the string generated by reading /proc/filesystems
fs/filesystems.c | 330 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
fs/ocfs2/super.c | 1 -
fs/proc/generic.c | 12 ++
fs/proc/internal.h | 3 +
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
include/linux/proc_fs.h | 10 ++
6 files changed, 250 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
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