bianbu-linux-6.6/include
Jeff Layton f02a9ad1f1 fs: handle inode->i_version more efficiently
Since i_version is mostly treated as an opaque value, we can exploit that
fact to avoid incrementing it when no one is watching. With that change,
we can avoid incrementing the counter on writes, unless someone has
queried for it since it was last incremented. If the a/c/mtime don't
change, and the i_version hasn't changed, then there's no need to dirty
the inode metadata on a write.

Convert the i_version counter to an atomic64_t, and use the lowest order
bit to hold a flag that will tell whether anyone has queried the value
since it was last incremented.

When we go to maybe increment it, we fetch the value and check the flag
bit.  If it's clear then we don't need to do anything if the update
isn't being forced.

If we do need to update, then we increment the counter by 2, and clear
the flag bit, and then use a CAS op to swap it into place. If that
works, we return true. If it doesn't then do it again with the value
that we fetch from the CAS operation.

On the query side, if the flag is already set, then we just shift the
value down by 1 bit and return it. Otherwise, we set the flag in our
on-stack value and again use cmpxchg to swap it into place if it hasn't
changed. If it has, then we use the value from the cmpxchg as the new
"old" value and try again.

This method allows us to avoid incrementing the counter on writes (and
dirtying the metadata) under typical workloads. We only need to increment
if it has been queried since it was last changed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
2018-01-29 06:42:21 -05:00
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acpi Merge branch 'acpi-ec' into acpi 2017-11-30 13:37:29 +01:00
asm-generic mm: switch to 'define pmd_write' instead of __HAVE_ARCH_PMD_WRITE 2017-11-29 18:40:42 -08:00
clocksource arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-28 16:22:10 -08:00
drm drm: safely free connectors from connector_iter 2017-12-06 10:22:55 +01:00
dt-bindings fixes/cleanups for rc1, non-desktop flags for VR 2017-11-23 21:04:56 -10:00
keys
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: Don't enable/disable physical timer access on VHE 2017-11-29 16:46:09 +01:00
linux fs: handle inode->i_version more efficiently 2018-01-29 06:42:21 -05:00
math-emu
media media updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-15 20:30:12 -08:00
memory
misc
net tcp: invalidate rate samples during SACK reneging 2017-12-08 10:07:02 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Updates for 4.15 kernel merge window 2017-11-15 14:54:53 -08:00
scsi scsi: libsas: align sata_device's rps_resp on a cacheline 2017-11-21 23:06:32 -05:00
soc We have two changes to the core framework this time around. The first being a 2017-11-17 20:04:24 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix yet remaining issue with vmaster 0dB initialization 2017-11-22 12:34:56 +01:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2017-11-24 19:19:20 -10:00
trace Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
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video fbdev changes for v4.15: 2017-11-20 21:50:24 -10:00
xen xen: features and fixes for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 13:06:27 -08:00