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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	davej@redhat.com, wli@holomorphy.com,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: dentry bloat.
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 09:28:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <409DDDAE.3090700@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040508204239.GB6383@in.ibm.com>

Dipankar Sarma wrote:

>On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:27:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  
>
>>And yes, removing d_movecount would be ok by then, as long as we re-test
>>the parent inside d_lock (we don't need to re-test "hash", since if we
>>tested the full name inside the lock, the hash had better match too ;)
>>    
>>
What's the prupose of d_move_count?
AFAICS it protects against a double rename: first to different bucket, 
then back to original bucket. This changes the position of the dentry in 
the hash chain and a concurrent lookup would skip entries.
d_lock wouldn't prevent that.

But I think d_bucket could be removed: for __d_lookup the test appears 
to be redundant with the d_move_count test. The remaining users are not 
performance critical, they could recalculate the bucket from d_parent 
and d_name.hash.

--
    Manfred


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-09  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040506200027.GC26679@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <20040506150944.126bb409.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found]   ` <409B1511.6010500@colorfullife.com>
2004-05-08  8:23     ` dentry bloat Andrew Morton
2004-05-08  9:23       ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:11         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:12           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:28           ` viro
2004-05-08 10:41             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:52             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:31           ` Manfred Spraul
2004-05-08 17:28           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 18:19             ` David S. Miller
2004-05-08 19:01             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 19:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 19:27                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 19:27                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 20:42                   ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-08 20:55                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 21:19                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-09  0:10                         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09  2:55                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09  3:12                             ` David S. Miller
2004-05-09  3:53                               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 21:03                                 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-10  8:27                                   ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-10  8:32                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-10  9:46                                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-10 14:54                                         ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-10 16:26                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-05-10 18:34                                             ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-09  4:12                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09  4:25                               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09  4:36                                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09  5:14                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09  7:36                                     ` Rodolfo Guluarte Hale
2004-05-09  9:10                                     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-05-09  9:23                                       ` viro
2004-05-09 15:35                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 18:11                                         ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-09 22:08                                           ` Francois Romieu
2004-05-09 23:51                                           ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-10  7:17                                         ` Florian Weimer
2004-05-10 14:12                                         ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-09  4:43                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09  7:28                     ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2004-05-09 15:33                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-09 22:17                         ` viro
2004-05-09 22:27                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11  5:26                             ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-10 18:39                           ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-11  5:17                             ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-08 20:13                 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-10-06 12:58                   ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-11 20:22                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-14 10:33                       ` Raghavan
2004-05-14 10:50                         ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-14 11:04                           ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-14 11:14                             ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-14 11:24                               ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-14 11:30                                 ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-14 11:24                               ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-14 11:18                         ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-14 14:44                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 21:00               ` Dipankar Sarma

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