fs/proc: use a rb tree for the directory entries

When a lot of netdevices are created, one of the bottleneck is the
creation of proc entries.  This serie aims to accelerate this part.

The current implementation for the directories in /proc is using a single
linked list.  This is slow when handling directories with large numbers of
entries (eg netdevice-related entries when lots of tunnels are opened).

This patch replaces this linked list by a red-black tree.

Here are some numbers:

dummy30000.batch contains 30 000 times 'link add type dummy'.

Before the patch:
  $ time ip -b dummy30000.batch
  real    2m31.950s
  user    0m0.440s
  sys     2m21.440s
  $ time rmmod dummy
  real    1m35.764s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     1m24.088s

After the patch:
  $ time ip -b dummy30000.batch
  real    2m0.874s
  user    0m0.448s
  sys     1m49.720s
  $ time rmmod dummy
  real    1m13.988s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     1m1.008s

The idea of improving this part was suggested by Thierry Herbelot.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: initialise proc_root.subdir at compile time]
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@6wind.com>.
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_net.c b/fs/proc/proc_net.c
index a63af3e0a612..1bde894bc624 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_net.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_net.c
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ static __net_init int proc_net_ns_init(struct net *net)
 	if (!netd)
 		goto out;
 
+	netd->subdir = RB_ROOT;
 	netd->data = net;
 	netd->nlink = 2;
 	netd->namelen = 3;