From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet.ca>, Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] sysfs: Keep an nlink count on sysfs directories.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:41:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100112134134.5f55e95f@gondolin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263241315-19499-3-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:21:51 -0800,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
>
> On large directories sysfs_count_nlinks can be a significant
> bottleneck, so keep a count in sysfs_dirent. If we exceed
> the maximum number of directory entries we can store return
> nlink of 1. An nlink of 1 matches what reiserfs does in
> this case, and it let's find and similar utlities know that
> we have a the directory nlink can not be used for optimization
> purposes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
> ---
> fs/sysfs/dir.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/sysfs/inode.c | 15 +--------------
> fs/sysfs/mount.c | 1 +
> fs/sysfs/sysfs.h | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> @@ -420,6 +438,7 @@ int __sysfs_add_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
> return -EEXIST;
>
> sd->s_parent = sysfs_get(acxt->parent_sd);
> + sysfs_dir_inc_nlink(sd->s_parent);
>
> sysfs_link_sibling(sd);
>
> @@ -512,6 +531,7 @@ void sysfs_remove_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
>
> BUG_ON(sd->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED);
>
> + sysfs_dir_dec_nlink(sd->s_parent);
> sysfs_unlink_sibling(sd);
>
> /* Update timestamps on the parent */
Shouldn't s_nlink be adjusted in sysfs_rename for the move case as well?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-11 20:16 [PATCH 0/7] General sysfs enhancements Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-11 20:21 ` [PATCH 1/7] sysfs: Serialize updates to the vfs inode Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 5:41 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-01-11 20:21 ` [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: Pack sysfs_dirent more tightly Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 0:41 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-11 20:21 ` [PATCH 3/7] sysfs: Keep an nlink count on sysfs directories Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 0:46 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-12 0:53 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2010-01-12 1:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 1:12 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2010-01-12 1:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 6:22 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-12 15:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-01-12 1:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 5:56 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-01-12 8:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 12:41 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2010-01-12 15:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-11 20:21 ` [PATCH 4/7] sysfs: Implement sysfs_rename_link Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 6:24 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-12 17:30 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-01-11 20:21 ` [PATCH 5/7] driver core: Use sysfs_rename_link in device_rename Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 6:25 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-12 17:34 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-01-11 20:21 ` [PATCH 6/7] sysfs: Pass super_block to sysfs_get_inode Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 17:43 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-01-11 20:21 ` [PATCH 7/7] sysfs: Kill unused sysfs_sb variable Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-12 17:43 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-01-15 21:37 ` [PATCH 0/7] General sysfs enhancements Greg KH
2010-02-13 3:20 ` [PATCH 0/6] " Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 3:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] sysfs: Serialize updates to the vfs inode Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 3:22 ` [PATCH 2/6] sysfs: Pack sysfs_dirent more tightly Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 3:22 ` [PATCH 3/6] sysfs: Implement sysfs_rename_link Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 3:22 ` [PATCH 4/6] driver core: Use sysfs_rename_link in device_rename Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 3:22 ` [PATCH 5/6] sysfs: Pass super_block to sysfs_get_inode Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-13 3:22 ` [PATCH 6/6] sysfs: Kill unused sysfs_sb variable Eric W. Biederman
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