proc: do less stuff under ->pde_unload_lock
Commit ca469f35 ("deal with races between remove_proc_entry() and proc_reg_release()") moved too much stuff under ->pde_unload_lock making a problem described at series "[PATCH v5] procfs: Improve Scaling in proc" worse. While RCU is being figured out, move kfree() out of ->pde_unload_lock. On my potato, difference is only 0.5% speedup with concurrent open+read+close of /proc/cmdline, but the effect should be more noticeable on more capable machines. $ perf stat -r 16 -- ./proc-j 16 Performance counter stats for './proc-j 16' (16 runs): 130569.502377 task-clock (msec) # 15.872 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.05% ) 19,169 context-switches # 0.147 K/sec ( +- 0.18% ) 15 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 3.27% ) 437 page-faults # 0.003 K/sec ( +- 1.25% ) 300,172,097,675 cycles # 2.299 GHz ( +- 0.05% ) 96,793,267,308 instructions # 0.32 insn per cycle ( +- 0.04% ) 22,798,342,298 branches # 174.607 M/sec ( +- 0.04% ) 111,764,687 branch-misses # 0.49% of all branches ( +- 0.47% ) 8.226574400 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.05% ) ^^^^^^^^^^^ $ perf stat -r 16 -- ./proc-j 16 Performance counter stats for './proc-j 16' (16 runs): 129866.777392 task-clock (msec) # 15.869 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.04% ) 19,154 context-switches # 0.147 K/sec ( +- 0.66% ) 14 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 1.73% ) 431 page-faults # 0.003 K/sec ( +- 1.09% ) 298,556,520,546 cycles # 2.299 GHz ( +- 0.04% ) 96,525,366,833 instructions # 0.32 insn per cycle ( +- 0.04% ) 22,730,194,043 branches # 175.027 M/sec ( +- 0.04% ) 111,506,074 branch-misses # 0.49% of all branches ( +- 0.18% ) 8.183629778 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.04% ) ^^^^^^^^^^^ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213132911.GA24298@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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