[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator

This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for
expanding fdtable file descriptor entries.  The main focus is on the fdarray,
as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset.

The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage
increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed
size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for
larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are
considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is
chosen:

    pagesize / 4
    pagesize / 2
    pagesize      <- memory allocator switch point
    pagesize * 2
    pagesize * 4
    ...etc...

Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a
loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient
straightline code.

Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any
of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both
fdsets in a single swoop.  Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller
than the fdarray.  The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the
fdset memory allocation.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h
index 319118f..edca361 100644
--- a/include/linux/file.h
+++ b/include/linux/file.h
@@ -76,12 +76,6 @@ extern int get_unused_fd(void);
 extern void FASTCALL(put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd));
 struct kmem_cache;
 
-extern struct file ** alloc_fd_array(int);
-extern void free_fd_array(struct file **, int);
-
-extern fd_set *alloc_fdset(int);
-extern void free_fdset(fd_set *, int);
-
 extern int expand_files(struct files_struct *, int nr);
 extern void free_fdtable_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu);
 extern void __init files_defer_init(void);