Vnode API change: add global vnode cache

["J. Hannken-Illjes" <hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost>]

Currently all file systems have to implement their own cache of
vnode / fs node pairs.  Most file systems use a copy and pasted
version of ufs_ihash.

So add a global vnode cache with lookup and remove:


/*
 * Lookup a vnode / fs node pair by key and return it referenced through vpp.
 */
int
vcache_lookup(struct mount *mp, void *key, size_t key_len, struct vnode **vpp)

/*
 * Remove a vnode / fs node pair from the cache.
 */
void
vcache_remove(struct mount *mp, void *key, size_t key_len)


On cache miss vcache_lookup() will call a new vfs operation:


/*
 * Read an inode from disk and initialize this vnode / inode pair.
 * Caller assures no other thread will try to load this inode.
 */
int
vfs_load_node(struct mount *mp, struct vnode *vp,
    const void *key, size_t key_len, void **new_key)


to load and initialize this vnode / fs node pair.  The vnode cache
guarantees this call to be exclusive, no other thread will try to
load this vnode / fs node pair.  The vnode will not appear on any
list before this operation completes.

Diff implementing this for file systems sharing ufs_ihash and replacing
VFS_VGET()/VOP_UNLOCK() sequences with vcache_lookup() is here:

http://www.netbsd.org/~hannken/vnode-pass6-1.diff

Comments or objections anyone?

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J. Hannken-Illjes - hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost - TU Braunschweig 
(Germany)