From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, aswin@hp.com, john@stoffel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
scott.norton@hp.com, Waiman.Long@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:57:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130910005754.GV13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130910004020.29299.qmail@science.horizon.com>
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 08:40:20PM -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
> I'm really wondering about only trying once before taking the write lock.
> Yes, using the lsbit is a cute hack, but are we using it for its cuteness
> rather than its effectiveness?
>
> Renames happen occasionally. If that causes all the current pathname
> translations to fall back to the write lock, that is fairly heavy.
> Worse, all of those translations will (unnecessarily) bump the write
> seqcount, triggering *other* translations to fail back to the write-lock
> path.
_What_ "pathname translations"? Pathname resolution doesn't fall back to
seq_writelock() at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-10 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-09 16:18 [PATCH v4 0/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock Waiman Long
2013-09-09 16:18 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] " Waiman Long
2013-09-09 17:29 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-09 17:56 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-09 18:06 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-09 18:21 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 18:36 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 18:46 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 18:46 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-09 19:10 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 19:28 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 22:57 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-10 0:40 ` George Spelvin
2013-09-10 0:57 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-09-10 1:15 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-10 1:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-10 2:25 ` Al Viro
2013-09-10 2:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-10 3:12 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-10 8:24 ` George Spelvin
2013-09-10 3:57 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-09 17:55 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-09 18:07 ` Al Viro
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