The inode structure layout is largely random, and some of the vfs paths
really do care.  The path lookup in particular is already quite D$
intensive, and profiles show that accessing the 'inode->i_op->xyz'
fields is quite costly.

We already optimized the dcache to not unnecessarily load the d_op
structure for members that are often NULL using the DCACHE_OP_xyz bits
in dentry->d_flags, and this does something very similar for the inode
ops that are used during pathname lookup.

It also re-orders the fields so that the fields accessed by 'stat' are
together at the beginning of the inode structure, and roughly in the
order accessed.

The effect of this seems to be in the 1-2% range for an empty kernel
"make -j" run (which is fairly kernel-intensive, mostly in filename
lookup), so it's visible.  The numbers are fairly noisy, though, and
likely depend a lot on exact microarchitecture.  So there's more tuning
to be done.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Some inodes (pipes, sockets, ...) are not hashed, no need to take
contended inode_hash_lock at dismantle time.

nice speedup on SMP machines on socket intensive workloads.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  merge fchmod() and fchmodat() guts, kill ancient broken kludge
  xfs: fix misspelled S_IS...()
  xfs: get rid of open-coded S_ISREG(), etc.
  vfs: document locking requirements for d_move, __d_move and d_materialise_unique
  omfs: fix (mode & S_IFDIR) abuse
  btrfs: S_ISREG(mode) is not mode & S_IFREG...
  ima: fmode_t misspelled as mode_t...
  pci-label.c: size_t misspelled as mode_t
  jffs2: S_ISLNK(mode & S_IFMT) is pointless
  snd_msnd ->mode is fmode_t, not mode_t
  v9fs_iop_get_acl: get rid of unused variable
  vfs: dont chain pipe/anon/socket on superblock s_inodes list
  Documentation: Exporting: update description of d_splice_alias
  fs: add missing unlock in default_llseek()

Workloads using pipes and sockets hit inode_sb_list_lock contention.

superblock s_inodes list is needed for quota, dirty, pagecache and
fsnotify management. pipe/anon/socket fs are clearly not candidates for
these.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

* 'for-3.1' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  nfsd: don't break lease on CLAIM_DELEGATE_CUR
  locks: rename lock-manager ops
  nfsd4: update nfsv4.1 implementation notes
  nfsd: turn on reply cache for NFSv4
  nfsd4: call nfsd4_release_compoundargs from pc_release
  nfsd41: Deny new lock before RECLAIM_COMPLETE done
  fs: locks: remove init_once
  nfsd41: check the size of request
  nfsd41: error out when client sets maxreq_sz or maxresp_sz too small
  nfsd4: fix file leak on open_downgrade
  nfsd4: remember to put RW access on stateid destruction
  NFSD: Added TEST_STATEID operation
  NFSD: added FREE_STATEID operation
  svcrpc: fix list-corrupting race on nfsd shutdown
  rpc: allow autoloading of gss mechanisms
  svcauth_unix.c: quiet sparse noise
  svcsock.c: include sunrpc.h to quiet sparse noise
  nfsd: Remove deprecated nfsctl system call and related code.
  NFSD: allow OP_DESTROY_CLIENTID to be only op in COMPOUND

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  fs: Merge split strings
  treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions
  uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment
  net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet
  trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree
  lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number
  doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be'
  doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared
  doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt
  drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration
  drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration
  XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration
  SH: static should be at beginning of declaration
  MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration
  ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration
  rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check
  Update my e-mail address
  PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly
  gma500: push through device driver tree
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts:
 - arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted)
 - drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby)
 - drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  fs: take the ACL checks to common code
  bury posix_acl_..._masq() variants
  kill boilerplates around posix_acl_create_masq()
  generic_acl: no need to clone acl just to push it to set_cached_acl()
  kill boilerplate around posix_acl_chmod_masq()
  reiserfs: cache negative ACLs for v1 stat format
  xfs: cache negative ACLs if there is no attribute fork
  9p: do no return 0 from ->check_acl without actually checking
  vfs: move ACL cache lookup into generic code
  CIFS: Fix oops while mounting with prefixpath
  xfs: Fix wrong return value of xfs_file_aio_write
  fix devtmpfs race
  caam: don't pass bogus S_IFCHR to debugfs_create_...()
  get rid of create_proc_entry() abuses - proc_mkdir() is there for purpose
  asus-wmi: ->is_visible() can't return negative
  fix jffs2 ACLs on big-endian with 16bit mode_t
  9p: close ACL leaks
  ocfs2_init_acl(): fix a leak
  VFS : mount lock scalability for internal mounts

Replace the ->check_acl method with a ->get_acl method that simply reads an
ACL from disk after having a cache miss.  This means we can replace the ACL
checking boilerplate code with a single implementation in namei.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

* 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
  block: strict rq_affinity
  backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu
  block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
  block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding
  CFQ: add think time check for group
  CFQ: add think time check for service tree
  CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
  fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
  cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
  block: document blk_plug list access
  block: avoid building too big plug list
  compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check regression
  block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
  compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu
  block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)
  blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned
  block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
  fs/partitions/check.c: make local symbols static
  block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c
  block:fix the comment error in blkdev.h
  ...

For a number of file systems that don't have a mount point (e.g. sockfs
and pipefs), they are not marked as long term. Therefore in
mntput_no_expire, all locks in vfs_mount lock are taken instead of just
local cpu's lock to aggregate reference counts when we release
reference to file objects.  In fact, only local lock need to have been
taken to update ref counts as these file systems are in no danger of
going away until we are ready to unregister them.

The attached patch marks file systems using kern_mount without
mount point as long term.  The contentions of vfs_mount lock
is now eliminated.  Before un-registering such file system,
kern_unmount should be called to remove the long term flag and
make the mount point ready to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>