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19 #include "xfs_mru_cache.h"
22 * The MRU Cache data structure consists of a data store, an array of lists and
23 * a lock to protect its internal state. At initialisation time, the client
24 * supplies an element lifetime in milliseconds and a group count, as well as a
25 * function pointer to call when deleting elements. A data structure for
26 * queueing up work in the form of timed callbacks is also included.
28 * The group count controls how many lists are created, and thereby how finely
29 * the elements are grouped in time. When reaping occurs, all the elements in
30 * all the lists whose time has expired are deleted.
32 * To give an example of how this works in practice, consider a client that
33 * initialises an MRU Cache with a lifetime of ten seconds and a group count of
34 * five. Five internal lists will be created, each representing a two second
35 * period in time. When the first element is added, time zero for the data
36 * structure is initialised to the current time.
38 * All the elements added in the first two seconds are appended to the first
39 * list. Elements added in the third second go into the second list, and so on.
40 * If an element is accessed at any point, it is removed from its list and
41 * inserted at the head of the current most-recently-used list.
43 * The reaper function will have nothing to do until at least twelve seconds
44 * have elapsed since the first element was added. The reason for this is that
45 * if it were called at t=11s, there could be elements in the first list that
46 * have only been inactive for nine seconds, so it still does nothing. If it is
47 * called anywhere between t=12 and t=14 seconds, it will delete all the
48 * elements that remain in the first list. It's therefore possible for elements
49 * to remain in the data store even after they've been inactive for up to
50 * (t + t/g) seconds, where t is the inactive element lifetime and g is the
53 * The above example assumes that the reaper function gets called at least once
54 * every (t/g) seconds. If it is called less frequently, unused elements will
55 * accumulate in the reap list until the reaper function is eventually called.
56 * The current implementation uses work queue callbacks to carefully time the
57 * reaper function calls, so this should happen rarely, if at all.
59 * From a design perspective, the primary reason for the choice of a list array
60 * representing discrete time intervals is that it's only practical to reap
61 * expired elements in groups of some appreciable size. This automatically
62 * introduces a granularity to element lifetimes, so there's no point storing an
63 * individual timeout with each element that specifies a more precise reap time.
64 * The bonus is a saving of sizeof(long) bytes of memory per element stored.
66 * The elements could have been stored in just one list, but an array of
67 * counters or pointers would need to be maintained to allow them to be divided
68 * up into discrete time groups. More critically, the process of touching or
69 * removing an element would involve walking large portions of the entire list,
70 * which would have a detrimental effect on performance. The additional memory
71 * requirement for the array of list heads is minimal.
73 * When an element is touched or deleted, it needs to be removed from its
74 * current list. Doubly linked lists are used to make the list maintenance
75 * portion of these operations O(1). Since reaper timing can be imprecise,
76 * inserts and lookups can occur when there are no free lists available. When
77 * this happens, all the elements on the LRU list need to be migrated to the end
78 * of the reap list. To keep the list maintenance portion of these operations
79 * O(1) also, list tails need to be accessible without walking the entire list.
80 * This is the reason why doubly linked list heads are used.
84 * An MRU Cache is a dynamic data structure that stores its elements in a way
85 * that allows efficient lookups, but also groups them into discrete time
86 * intervals based on insertion time. This allows elements to be efficiently
87 * and automatically reaped after a fixed period of inactivity.
89 * When a client data pointer is stored in the MRU Cache it needs to be added to
90 * both the data store and to one of the lists. It must also be possible to
91 * access each of these entries via the other, i.e. to:
93 * a) Walk a list, removing the corresponding data store entry for each item.
94 * b) Look up a data store entry, then access its list entry directly.
96 * To achieve both of these goals, each entry must contain both a list entry and
97 * a key, in addition to the user's data pointer. Note that it's not a good
98 * idea to have the client embed one of these structures at the top of their own
99 * data structure, because inserting the same item more than once would most
100 * likely result in a loop in one of the lists. That's a sure-fire recipe for
101 * an infinite loop in the code.
103 typedef struct xfs_mru_cache_elem
105 struct list_head list_node
;
108 } xfs_mru_cache_elem_t
;
110 static kmem_zone_t
*xfs_mru_elem_zone
;
111 static struct workqueue_struct
*xfs_mru_reap_wq
;
114 * When inserting, destroying or reaping, it's first necessary to update the
115 * lists relative to a particular time. In the case of destroying, that time
116 * will be well in the future to ensure that all items are moved to the reap
117 * list. In all other cases though, the time will be the current time.
119 * This function enters a loop, moving the contents of the LRU list to the reap
120 * list again and again until either a) the lists are all empty, or b) time zero
121 * has been advanced sufficiently to be within the immediate element lifetime.
123 * Case a) above is detected by counting how many groups are migrated and
124 * stopping when they've all been moved. Case b) is detected by monitoring the
125 * time_zero field, which is updated as each group is migrated.
127 * The return value is the earliest time that more migration could be needed, or
128 * zero if there's no need to schedule more work because the lists are empty.
131 _xfs_mru_cache_migrate(
132 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
,
136 unsigned int migrated
= 0;
137 struct list_head
*lru_list
;
139 /* Nothing to do if the data store is empty. */
143 /* While time zero is older than the time spanned by all the lists. */
144 while (mru
->time_zero
<= now
- mru
->grp_count
* mru
->grp_time
) {
147 * If the LRU list isn't empty, migrate its elements to the tail
150 lru_list
= mru
->lists
+ mru
->lru_grp
;
151 if (!list_empty(lru_list
))
152 list_splice_init(lru_list
, mru
->reap_list
.prev
);
155 * Advance the LRU group number, freeing the old LRU list to
156 * become the new MRU list; advance time zero accordingly.
158 mru
->lru_grp
= (mru
->lru_grp
+ 1) % mru
->grp_count
;
159 mru
->time_zero
+= mru
->grp_time
;
162 * If reaping is so far behind that all the elements on all the
163 * lists have been migrated to the reap list, it's now empty.
165 if (++migrated
== mru
->grp_count
) {
172 /* Find the first non-empty list from the LRU end. */
173 for (grp
= 0; grp
< mru
->grp_count
; grp
++) {
175 /* Check the grp'th list from the LRU end. */
176 lru_list
= mru
->lists
+ ((mru
->lru_grp
+ grp
) % mru
->grp_count
);
177 if (!list_empty(lru_list
))
178 return mru
->time_zero
+
179 (mru
->grp_count
+ grp
) * mru
->grp_time
;
182 /* All the lists must be empty. */
189 * When inserting or doing a lookup, an element needs to be inserted into the
190 * MRU list. The lists must be migrated first to ensure that they're
191 * up-to-date, otherwise the new element could be given a shorter lifetime in
192 * the cache than it should.
195 _xfs_mru_cache_list_insert(
196 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
,
197 xfs_mru_cache_elem_t
*elem
)
199 unsigned int grp
= 0;
200 unsigned long now
= jiffies
;
203 * If the data store is empty, initialise time zero, leave grp set to
204 * zero and start the work queue timer if necessary. Otherwise, set grp
205 * to the number of group times that have elapsed since time zero.
207 if (!_xfs_mru_cache_migrate(mru
, now
)) {
208 mru
->time_zero
= now
;
211 queue_delayed_work(xfs_mru_reap_wq
, &mru
->work
,
212 mru
->grp_count
* mru
->grp_time
);
215 grp
= (now
- mru
->time_zero
) / mru
->grp_time
;
216 grp
= (mru
->lru_grp
+ grp
) % mru
->grp_count
;
219 /* Insert the element at the tail of the corresponding list. */
220 list_add_tail(&elem
->list_node
, mru
->lists
+ grp
);
224 * When destroying or reaping, all the elements that were migrated to the reap
225 * list need to be deleted. For each element this involves removing it from the
226 * data store, removing it from the reap list, calling the client's free
227 * function and deleting the element from the element zone.
230 _xfs_mru_cache_clear_reap_list(
231 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
)
233 xfs_mru_cache_elem_t
*elem
, *next
;
234 struct list_head tmp
;
236 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tmp
);
237 list_for_each_entry_safe(elem
, next
, &mru
->reap_list
, list_node
) {
239 /* Remove the element from the data store. */
240 radix_tree_delete(&mru
->store
, elem
->key
);
243 * remove to temp list so it can be freed without
244 * needing to hold the lock
246 list_move(&elem
->list_node
, &tmp
);
248 mutex_spinunlock(&mru
->lock
, 0);
250 list_for_each_entry_safe(elem
, next
, &tmp
, list_node
) {
252 /* Remove the element from the reap list. */
253 list_del_init(&elem
->list_node
);
255 /* Call the client's free function with the key and value pointer. */
256 mru
->free_func(elem
->key
, elem
->value
);
258 /* Free the element structure. */
259 kmem_zone_free(xfs_mru_elem_zone
, elem
);
262 mutex_spinlock(&mru
->lock
);
266 * We fire the reap timer every group expiry interval so
267 * we always have a reaper ready to run. This makes shutdown
268 * and flushing of the reaper easy to do. Hence we need to
269 * keep when the next reap must occur so we can determine
270 * at each interval whether there is anything we need to do.
274 struct work_struct
*work
)
276 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
= container_of(work
, xfs_mru_cache_t
, work
.work
);
277 unsigned long now
, next
;
279 ASSERT(mru
&& mru
->lists
);
280 if (!mru
|| !mru
->lists
)
283 mutex_spinlock(&mru
->lock
);
284 next
= _xfs_mru_cache_migrate(mru
, jiffies
);
285 _xfs_mru_cache_clear_reap_list(mru
);
288 if ((mru
->queued
> 0)) {
294 queue_delayed_work(xfs_mru_reap_wq
, &mru
->work
, next
);
297 mutex_spinunlock(&mru
->lock
, 0);
301 xfs_mru_cache_init(void)
303 xfs_mru_elem_zone
= kmem_zone_init(sizeof(xfs_mru_cache_elem_t
),
304 "xfs_mru_cache_elem");
305 if (!xfs_mru_elem_zone
)
308 xfs_mru_reap_wq
= create_singlethread_workqueue("xfs_mru_cache");
309 if (!xfs_mru_reap_wq
) {
310 kmem_zone_destroy(xfs_mru_elem_zone
);
318 xfs_mru_cache_uninit(void)
320 destroy_workqueue(xfs_mru_reap_wq
);
321 kmem_zone_destroy(xfs_mru_elem_zone
);
325 * To initialise a struct xfs_mru_cache pointer, call xfs_mru_cache_create()
326 * with the address of the pointer, a lifetime value in milliseconds, a group
327 * count and a free function to use when deleting elements. This function
328 * returns 0 if the initialisation was successful.
331 xfs_mru_cache_create(
332 xfs_mru_cache_t
**mrup
,
333 unsigned int lifetime_ms
,
334 unsigned int grp_count
,
335 xfs_mru_cache_free_func_t free_func
)
337 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
= NULL
;
339 unsigned int grp_time
;
344 if (!mrup
|| !grp_count
|| !lifetime_ms
|| !free_func
)
347 if (!(grp_time
= msecs_to_jiffies(lifetime_ms
) / grp_count
))
350 if (!(mru
= kmem_zalloc(sizeof(*mru
), KM_SLEEP
)))
353 /* An extra list is needed to avoid reaping up to a grp_time early. */
354 mru
->grp_count
= grp_count
+ 1;
355 mru
->lists
= kmem_zalloc(mru
->grp_count
* sizeof(*mru
->lists
), KM_SLEEP
);
362 for (grp
= 0; grp
< mru
->grp_count
; grp
++)
363 INIT_LIST_HEAD(mru
->lists
+ grp
);
366 * We use GFP_KERNEL radix tree preload and do inserts under a
367 * spinlock so GFP_ATOMIC is appropriate for the radix tree itself.
369 INIT_RADIX_TREE(&mru
->store
, GFP_ATOMIC
);
370 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mru
->reap_list
);
371 spinlock_init(&mru
->lock
, "xfs_mru_cache");
372 INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mru
->work
, _xfs_mru_cache_reap
);
374 mru
->grp_time
= grp_time
;
375 mru
->free_func
= free_func
;
380 if (err
&& mru
&& mru
->lists
)
381 kmem_free(mru
->lists
, mru
->grp_count
* sizeof(*mru
->lists
));
383 kmem_free(mru
, sizeof(*mru
));
389 * Call xfs_mru_cache_flush() to flush out all cached entries, calling their
390 * free functions as they're deleted. When this function returns, the caller is
391 * guaranteed that all the free functions for all the elements have finished
392 * executing and the reaper is not running.
396 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
)
398 if (!mru
|| !mru
->lists
)
401 mutex_spinlock(&mru
->lock
);
403 mutex_spinunlock(&mru
->lock
, 0);
404 cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(xfs_mru_reap_wq
, &mru
->work
);
405 mutex_spinlock(&mru
->lock
);
408 _xfs_mru_cache_migrate(mru
, jiffies
+ mru
->grp_count
* mru
->grp_time
);
409 _xfs_mru_cache_clear_reap_list(mru
);
411 mutex_spinunlock(&mru
->lock
, 0);
415 xfs_mru_cache_destroy(
416 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
)
418 if (!mru
|| !mru
->lists
)
421 xfs_mru_cache_flush(mru
);
423 kmem_free(mru
->lists
, mru
->grp_count
* sizeof(*mru
->lists
));
424 kmem_free(mru
, sizeof(*mru
));
428 * To insert an element, call xfs_mru_cache_insert() with the data store, the
429 * element's key and the client data pointer. This function returns 0 on
430 * success or ENOMEM if memory for the data element couldn't be allocated.
433 xfs_mru_cache_insert(
434 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
,
438 xfs_mru_cache_elem_t
*elem
;
440 ASSERT(mru
&& mru
->lists
);
441 if (!mru
|| !mru
->lists
)
444 elem
= kmem_zone_zalloc(xfs_mru_elem_zone
, KM_SLEEP
);
448 if (radix_tree_preload(GFP_KERNEL
)) {
449 kmem_zone_free(xfs_mru_elem_zone
, elem
);
453 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&elem
->list_node
);
457 mutex_spinlock(&mru
->lock
);
459 radix_tree_insert(&mru
->store
, key
, elem
);
460 radix_tree_preload_end();
461 _xfs_mru_cache_list_insert(mru
, elem
);
463 mutex_spinunlock(&mru
->lock
, 0);
469 * To remove an element without calling the free function, call
470 * xfs_mru_cache_remove() with the data store and the element's key. On success
471 * the client data pointer for the removed element is returned, otherwise this
472 * function will return a NULL pointer.
475 xfs_mru_cache_remove(
476 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
,
479 xfs_mru_cache_elem_t
*elem
;
482 ASSERT(mru
&& mru
->lists
);
483 if (!mru
|| !mru
->lists
)
486 mutex_spinlock(&mru
->lock
);
487 elem
= radix_tree_delete(&mru
->store
, key
);
490 list_del(&elem
->list_node
);
493 mutex_spinunlock(&mru
->lock
, 0);
496 kmem_zone_free(xfs_mru_elem_zone
, elem
);
502 * To remove and element and call the free function, call xfs_mru_cache_delete()
503 * with the data store and the element's key.
506 xfs_mru_cache_delete(
507 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
,
510 void *value
= xfs_mru_cache_remove(mru
, key
);
513 mru
->free_func(key
, value
);
517 * To look up an element using its key, call xfs_mru_cache_lookup() with the
518 * data store and the element's key. If found, the element will be moved to the
519 * head of the MRU list to indicate that it's been touched.
521 * The internal data structures are protected by a spinlock that is STILL HELD
522 * when this function returns. Call xfs_mru_cache_done() to release it. Note
523 * that it is not safe to call any function that might sleep in the interim.
525 * The implementation could have used reference counting to avoid this
526 * restriction, but since most clients simply want to get, set or test a member
527 * of the returned data structure, the extra per-element memory isn't warranted.
529 * If the element isn't found, this function returns NULL and the spinlock is
530 * released. xfs_mru_cache_done() should NOT be called when this occurs.
533 xfs_mru_cache_lookup(
534 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
,
537 xfs_mru_cache_elem_t
*elem
;
539 ASSERT(mru
&& mru
->lists
);
540 if (!mru
|| !mru
->lists
)
543 mutex_spinlock(&mru
->lock
);
544 elem
= radix_tree_lookup(&mru
->store
, key
);
546 list_del(&elem
->list_node
);
547 _xfs_mru_cache_list_insert(mru
, elem
);
550 mutex_spinunlock(&mru
->lock
, 0);
552 return elem
? elem
->value
: NULL
;
556 * To look up an element using its key, but leave its location in the internal
557 * lists alone, call xfs_mru_cache_peek(). If the element isn't found, this
558 * function returns NULL.
560 * See the comments above the declaration of the xfs_mru_cache_lookup() function
561 * for important locking information pertaining to this call.
565 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
,
568 xfs_mru_cache_elem_t
*elem
;
570 ASSERT(mru
&& mru
->lists
);
571 if (!mru
|| !mru
->lists
)
574 mutex_spinlock(&mru
->lock
);
575 elem
= radix_tree_lookup(&mru
->store
, key
);
577 mutex_spinunlock(&mru
->lock
, 0);
579 return elem
? elem
->value
: NULL
;
583 * To release the internal data structure spinlock after having performed an
584 * xfs_mru_cache_lookup() or an xfs_mru_cache_peek(), call xfs_mru_cache_done()
585 * with the data store pointer.
589 xfs_mru_cache_t
*mru
)
591 mutex_spinunlock(&mru
->lock
, 0);