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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>2011-01-07 09:50:07 +0300
committerNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>2011-01-07 09:50:32 +0300
commit4b936885ab04dc6e0bb0ef35e0e23c1a7364d9e5 (patch)
treea0173d27c1ce39f173be404d269c2f15144072ab
parent873feea09ebc980cbd3631b767356ce1eee65ec1 (diff)
downloadlinux-4b936885ab04dc6e0bb0ef35e0e23c1a7364d9e5.tar.xz
fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems
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@kernel.dk>
-rw-r--r--fs/anon_inodes.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c12
-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dcache.h1
-rw-r--r--net/socket.c2
5 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/anon_inodes.c b/fs/anon_inodes.c
index aca8806fa206..9d92b33da8a0 100644
--- a/fs/anon_inodes.c
+++ b/fs/anon_inodes.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ struct file *anon_inode_getfile(const char *name,
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;
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 09ec945f3c98..9e6e6db76869 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1330,6 +1330,18 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr *name)
}
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;
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 01a786567810..cfe3a7f2ee21 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ 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);
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index d719e4de8046..c0a2ca97c72f 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ extern void d_set_d_op(struct dentry *dentry, const struct dentry_operations *op
/* 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 *);
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 991e266bc7ae..0ee74c325320 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static int sock_alloc_file(struct socket *sock, struct file **f, int flags)
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;