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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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615021059.862643-5-imran.f.khan@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.