[patch 40/52] fs: dcache improve scalability of pseudo filesystems

npiggin
2010-06-24T03:24:14Z

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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@suse.de>
---
fs/anon_inodes.c | 4 +++-
fs/pipe.c | 5 +++--
net/socket.c | 5 +++--
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/net/socket.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/socket.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/socket.c
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static int sock_alloc_file(struct socket
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;
Index: linux-2.6/fs/anon_inodes.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/anon_inodes.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/anon_inodes.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ struct file *anon_inode_getfile(const ch
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;

Index: linux-2.6/fs/pipe.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/pipe.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/pipe.c
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ 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);
Index: linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/dcache.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1255,6 +1255,18 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * p
}
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;
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/dcache.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ extern void d_delete(struct dentry *);

/* 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 *);