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| author | Qi Zheng | 2023-06-09 08:15:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton | 2023-06-19 13:19:33 -0700 |
| commit | 47a7c01c3efc6581f5dcca40928baeb38e1e40c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 00073c63c91b68b1fb45cb3cdbeb9aee5c396945 /fs/super.c | |
| parent | 679bd7ebdd315bf457a4740b306ae99f1d0a403d (diff) | |
Revert "mm: shrinkers: convert shrinker_rwsem to mutex"
Patch series "revert shrinker_srcu related changes".
This patch (of 7):
This reverts commit cf2e309ebca7bb0916771839f9b580b06c778530.
Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec
test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make
global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be
careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits.
Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical
section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why
unregister_shrinker() has become slower.
After discussion, we will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed
by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So
revert the shrinker_mutex back to shrinker_rwsem first.
[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-2-qi.zheng@linux.dev
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@ya.ru>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/super.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/super.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 34afe411cf2b..04bc62ab7dfe 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static char *sb_writers_name[SB_FREEZE_LEVELS] = { * One thing we have to be careful of with a per-sb shrinker is that we don't * drop the last active reference to the superblock from within the shrinker. * If that happens we could trigger unregistering the shrinker from within the - * shrinker path and that leads to deadlock on the shrinker_mutex. Hence we + * shrinker path and that leads to deadlock on the shrinker_rwsem. Hence we * take a passive reference to the superblock to avoid this from occurring. */ static unsigned long super_cache_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, |