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Commit 2f897424 authored by Alexey Dobriyan's avatar Alexey Dobriyan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 68c3411f
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