fs: track the inode having file locks with a flag in ->i_opflags
Opening and closing an inode dirties the ->i_readcount field.
Depending on the alignment of the inode, it may happen to false-share
with other fields loaded both for both operations to various extent.
This notably concerns the ->i_flctx field.
Since most inodes don't have the field populated, this bit can be managed
with a flag in ->i_opflags instead which bypasses the problem.
Here are results I obtained while opening a file read-only in a loop
with 24 cores doing the work on Sapphire Rapids. Utilizing the flag as
opposed to reading ->i_flctx field was toggled at runtime as the benchmark
was running, to make sure both results come from the same alignment.
before:
3233740
after:
3373346 (+4%)
before:
3284313
after:
3518711 (+7%)
before:
3505545
after:
4092806 (+16%)
Or to put it differently, this varies wildly depending on how (un)lucky
you get.
The primary bottleneck before and after is the avoidable lockref trip in
do_dentry_open().
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251203094837.290654-2-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>