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fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems

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Regardless of how much we possibly try to scale dcache, there is likely
always going to be some fundamental contention when adding or removing children
under the same parent. Pseudo filesystems do not seem need to have connected
dentries because by definition they are disconnected.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
This commit is contained in:
Nick Piggin 2011-01-07 17:50:07 +11:00
parent 873feea09e
commit 4b936885ab
5 changed files with 16 additions and 3 deletions
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fs/anon_inodes.c
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@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ struct file *anon_inode_getfile(const char *name,
this.name = name;
this.len = strlen(name);
this.hash = 0;
path.dentry = d_alloc(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &this);
path.dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb, &this);
if (!path.dentry)
goto err_module;

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fs/dcache.c
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@ -1330,6 +1330,18 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr *name)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc);
struct dentry *d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name)
{
struct dentry *dentry = d_alloc(NULL, name);
if (dentry) {
dentry->d_sb = sb;
dentry->d_parent = dentry;
dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
}
return dentry;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc_pseudo);
struct dentry *d_alloc_name(struct dentry *parent, const char *name)
{
struct qstr q;

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fs/pipe.c
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@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ struct file *create_write_pipe(int flags)
goto err;
err = -ENOMEM;
path.dentry = d_alloc(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &name);
path.dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb, &name);
if (!path.dentry)
goto err_inode;
path.mnt = mntget(pipe_mnt);

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include/linux/dcache.h
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@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ extern void d_set_d_op(struct dentry *dentry, const struct dentry_operations *op
/* allocate/de-allocate */
extern struct dentry * d_alloc(struct dentry *, const struct qstr *);
extern struct dentry * d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *);
extern struct dentry * d_splice_alias(struct inode *, struct dentry *);
extern struct dentry * d_add_ci(struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct qstr *);
extern struct dentry * d_obtain_alias(struct inode *);

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net/socket.c
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@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static int sock_alloc_file(struct socket *sock, struct file **f, int flags)
if (unlikely(fd < 0))
return fd;
path.dentry = d_alloc(sock_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &name);
path.dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(sock_mnt->mnt_sb, &name);
if (unlikely(!path.dentry)) {
put_unused_fd(fd);
return -ENOMEM;