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When profiling a workload I noticed we were constantly calling getxattr.
These were mostly coming from __remove_privs, which will lookup if
security.capability exists to remove it. However instrumenting getxattr
showed we get called nearly constantly on an idle machine on a lot of
accesses.
These are wasteful and not free. Other security LSMs have a way to
cache their results, but capability doesn't have this, so it's asking us
all the time for the xattr.
Fix this by setting a flag in our inode that it doesn't have a
security.capability xattr. We set this on new inodes and after a failed
lookup of security.capability. If we set this xattr at all we'll clear
the flag.
I haven't found a test in fsperf that this makes a visible difference
on, but I assume fs_mark related tests would show it clearly. This is a
perf report output of the smallfiles100k run where it shows 20% of our
time spent in __remove_privs because we're looking up the non-existent
xattr.
--21.86%--btrfs_write_check.constprop.0
--21.62%--__file_remove_privs
--21.55%--security_inode_need_killpriv
--21.54%--cap_inode_need_killpriv
--21.53%--__vfs_getxattr
--20.89%--btrfs_getxattr
Obviously this is just CPU time in a mostly IO bound test, so the actual
effect of removing this callchain is minimal. However in just normal
testing of an idle system tracing showed around 100 getxattr calls per
minute, and with this patch there are 0.
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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