fs: fs_struct use seqlock

Use a seqlock in the fs_struct to enable us to take an atomic copy of the
complete cwd and root paths. Use this in the RCU lookup path to avoid a
thread-shared spinlock in RCU lookup operations.

Multi-threaded apps may now perform path lookups with scalability matching
multi-process apps. Operations such as stat(2) become very scalable for
multi-threaded workload.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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Nick Piggin
2011-01-07 17:49:53 +11:00
parent 31e6b01f41
commit c28cc36469
3 changed files with 34 additions and 13 deletions

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#define _LINUX_FS_STRUCT_H
#include <linux/path.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/seqlock.h>
struct fs_struct {
int users;
spinlock_t lock;
seqcount_t seq;
int umask;
int in_exec;
struct path root, pwd;