linux.git/fs/dcache.c, branch v2.6.17

[PATCH] dcache: Add helper d_hash_and_lookup

2006-03-31T20:19:00+00:00

It is very common to hash a dentry and then to call lookup.  If we take fs
specific hash functions into account the full hash logic can get ugly.
Further full_name_hash as an inline function is almost 100 bytes on x86 so
having a non-inline choice in some cases can measurably decrease code size.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] inotify: IN_DELETE events missing

2006-03-31T20:18:55+00:00

IN_DELETE events are no longer generated for the removal of a file from a
watched directory.

This seems to be a result of clearing DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED in
d_delete() directly before calling fsnotify_nameremove().

Assuming the flag doesn't need to be cleared before dentry_iput(), this
should do the trick.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis 
Cc: John McCutchan 
Acked-by: Robert Love 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

2006-03-26T17:41:18+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/fdc-io.c: Correct a comment
  Kconfig help: MTD_JEDECPROBE already supports Intel
  Remove ugly debugging stuff
  do_mounts.c: Minor ROOT_DEV comment cleanup
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/mempool.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/memory.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/fork.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/sem.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/ext2/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/hfs/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/dcache.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/buffer.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hp_sdc_mlc.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-table.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-path-selector.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/isdn
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/char
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/mtd/

Remove ugly debugging stuff

2006-03-26T16:58:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables

2006-03-26T16:56:56+00:00

I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat.  So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing.  RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/dcache.c

2006-03-26T16:25:39+00:00

this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] Reduce sched latency in shrink_dcache_sb()

2006-03-25T16:22:56+00:00

This patch reduces scheduling latency in shrink_dcache_sb() noticed during
remounting of big partitions with many cached dentries.  The same latency
fix was applied to select_parent() long ago.

Signed-off-by: Denis Lunev 
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov 
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentry

2006-03-25T16:22:53+00:00

Previous inotify work avoidance is good when inotify is completely unused,
but it breaks down if even a single watch is in place anywhere in the
system.  Robin Holt notices that udev is one such culprit - it slows down a
512-thread application on a 512 CPU system from 6 seconds to 22 minutes.

Solve this by adding a flag in the dentry that tells inotify whether or not
its parent inode has a watch on it.  Event queueing to parent will skip
taking locks if this flag is cleared.  Setting and clearing of this flag on
all child dentries versus event delivery: this is no in terms of race
cases, and that was shown to be equivalent to always performing the check.

The essential behaviour is that activity occuring _after_ a watch has been
added and _before_ it has been removed, will generate events.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Robert Love 
Cc: John McCutchan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Optimise d_find_alias()

2006-03-25T16:22:49+00:00

The attached patch optimises d_find_alias() to only take the spinlock if
there's anything in the the inode's alias list.  If there isn't, it returns
NULL immediately.

With respect to the superblock sharing patch, this should reduce by one the
number of times the dcache_lock is taken by nfs_lookup() for ordinary
directory lookups.

Only in the case where there's already a dentry for particular directory inode
(such as might happen when another mountpoint is rooted at that dentry) will
the lock then be taken the extra time.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache hooks

2006-03-24T15:33:23+00:00

Change the kmem_cache_create calls for certain slab caches to support cpuset
memory spreading.

See the previous patches, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset
memory spreading, and cpuset_mem_spread_slab_cache for the slab cache support
for memory spreading.

The slab caches marked for now are: dentry_cache, inode_cache, some xfs slab
caches, and buffer_head.  This list may change over time.  In particular,
other file system types that are used extensively on large NUMA systems may
want to allow for spreading their directory and inode slab cache entries.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds