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    kernfs: Replace global kernfs_open_file_mutex with hashed mutexes. · 1d25b84e
    Imran Khan authored
    In current kernfs design a single mutex, kernfs_open_file_mutex, protects
    the list of kernfs_open_file instances corresponding to a sysfs attribute.
    So even if different tasks are opening or closing different sysfs files
    they can contend on osq_lock of this mutex. The contention is more apparent
    in large scale systems with few hundred CPUs where most of the CPUs have
    running tasks that are opening, accessing or closing sysfs files at any
    point of time.
    
    Using hashed mutexes in place of a single global mutex, can significantly
    reduce contention around global mutex and hence can provide better
    scalability. Moreover as these hashed mutexes are not part of kernfs_node
    objects we will not see any singnificant change in memory utilization of
    kernfs based file systems like sysfs, cgroupfs etc.
    
    Modify interface introduced in previous patch to make use of hashed
    mutexes. Use kernfs_node address as hashing key.
    Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarImran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615021059.862643-5-imran.f.khan@oracle.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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