Dipankar Sarma ab2af1f500 [PATCH] files: files struct with RCU ... Patch to eliminate struct files_struct.file_lock spinlock on the reader side and use rcu refcounting rcuref_xxx api for the f_count refcounter. The updates to the fdtable are done by allocating a new fdtable structure and setting files->fdt to point to the new structure. The fdtable structure is protected by RCU thereby allowing lock-free lookup. For fd arrays/sets that are vmalloced, we use keventd to free them since RCU callbacks can't sleep. A global list of fdtable to be freed is not scalable, so we use a per-cpu list. If keventd is already handling the current cpu's work, we use a timer to defer queueing of that work. Since the last publication, this patch has been re-written to avoid using explicit memory barriers and use rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference() premitives instead. This required that the fd information is kept in a separate structure (fdtable) and updated atomically. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>		2005-09-09 13:57:55 -07:00
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irq
power
acct.c
audit.c
auditsc.c
capability.c
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c
crash_dump.c
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c	[PATCH] files: files struct with RCU	2005-09-09 13:57:55 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c	[PATCH] files: files struct with RCU	2005-09-09 13:57:55 -07:00
futex.c
intermodule.c
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
Makefile
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panic.c
params.c
pid.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
rcupdate.c
resource.c
sched.c
seccomp.c
signal.c
softirq.c
softlockup.c
spinlock.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c
time.c
timer.c
uid16.c
user.c
wait.c
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