I am currently tracking a hotlock reported by a customer on a large
system, 512 cores. I am currently running 3.8-rc7 but the issue looks
like it has been this way for a very long time. The offending lock is
proc_dir_entry->pde_unload_lock.
This patch converts the lock to use rcu. However the pde_openers list
still is controlled by a spin lock. I tested on a 4096 machine and the
lock doesn't seem hot at least according to perf.
This is a refresh of what was orignally suggested by Eric Dumazet some
time ago. I have also taken in some comments from Andrew and several
other people whose names escape me but I am quite grateful too.
Supporting numbers, lower is better, they are from the test I posted earlier.
cpuinfo baseline Rcu
tasks read-sec read-sec
1 0.0141 0.0141
2 0.0140 0.0142
4 0.0140 0.0141
8 0.0145 0.0140
16 0.0553 0.0168
32 0.1688 0.0549
64 0.5017 0.1690
128 1.7005 0.5038
256 5.2513 2.0804
512 8.0529 3.0162
Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>