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Dipankar Sarma 529bf6be5c [PATCH] fix file counting ... I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc. The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up with a very fragmented slab - llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 587730 0 758844 At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following patch I fixes this problem. This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock. Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user. Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>		19 years ago
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802	[P8023]: Fix tainting of kernel.	19 years ago
8021q	…
appletalk	…
atm	[ATM]: keep atmsvc failure messages quiet	19 years ago
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bluetooth	[Bluetooth] Fix NULL pointer dereferences of the HCI socket	19 years ago
bridge	[BRIDGE]: generate kobject remove event	19 years ago
core	[REQSK]: Don't reset rskq_defer_accept in reqsk_queue_alloc	19 years ago
dccp	[DCCP] ccid3: Divide by zero fix	19 years ago
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ethernet	[NET] ethernet: Fix first packet goes out with MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00	19 years ago
ieee80211	[PATCH] ieee80211_rx.c: is_beacon	19 years ago
ipv4	[NETFILTER] ip_queue: Fix wrong skb->len == nlmsg_len assumption	19 years ago
ipv6	[NETFILTER] ip_queue: Fix wrong skb->len == nlmsg_len assumption	19 years ago
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irda	[IRDA]: out of range array access	19 years ago
key	[XFRM]: Eliminate refcounting confusion by creating __xfrm_state_put().	19 years ago
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netfilter	[NETFILTER]: nf_queue: fix end-of-list check	19 years ago
netlink	[NETLINK] genetlink: Fix bugs spotted by Andrew Morton.	19 years ago
netrom	…
packet	[NET]: Fix some whitespace issues in af_packet.c	19 years ago
rose	…
rxrpc	[NET]: "signed long" -> "long"	19 years ago
sched	[PKT_SCHED]: Handle SCTP/DCCP in sfq_hash	19 years ago
sctp	[SCTP]: Fix 'fast retransmit' to send a TSN only once.	19 years ago
sunrpc	SUNRPC: Move upcall out of auth->au_ops->crcreate()	19 years ago
tipc	[TIPC] Avoid polluting the global namespace	19 years ago
unix	[PATCH] fix file counting	19 years ago
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xfrm	[IPSEC]: Kill post_input hook and do NAT-T in esp_input directly	19 years ago
Kconfig	[NET]: Add CONFIG_NETDEBUG to suppress bad packet messages.	19 years ago
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socket.c	[PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs	19 years ago
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