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| author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2006-12-06 20:38:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> | 2006-12-07 08:39:41 -0800 |
| commit | b3423415fbc2e5461605826317da1c8dbbf21f97 (patch) | |
| tree | d7e129545515846526d72072322ad405a4b7a41b /fs/dcache.c | |
| parent | d18de5a2721f84ffd6a5d637915746ed47becc1c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b3423415fbc2e5461605826317da1c8dbbf21f97.tar.gz lwn-b3423415fbc2e5461605826317da1c8dbbf21f97.zip | |
[PATCH] dcache: avoid RCU for never-hashed dentries
Some dentries don't need to be globally visible in dentry hashtable.
(pipes & sockets)
Such dentries dont need to wait for a RCU grace period at delete time.
Being able to free them permits a better CPU cache use (hot cache)
This patch combined with (dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable)
reduced time of { pipe(p); close(p[0]); close(p[1]);} on my UP machine (1.6
GHz Pentium-M) from 3.23 us to 2.86 us (But this patch does not depend on
other patches, only bench results)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index a7c67cee5d83..d68631f18df1 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -68,15 +68,19 @@ struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat = { .age_limit = 45, }; -static void d_callback(struct rcu_head *head) +static void __d_free(struct dentry *dentry) { - struct dentry * dentry = container_of(head, struct dentry, d_u.d_rcu); - if (dname_external(dentry)) kfree(dentry->d_name.name); kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry); } +static void d_callback(struct rcu_head *head) +{ + struct dentry * dentry = container_of(head, struct dentry, d_u.d_rcu); + __d_free(dentry); +} + /* * no dcache_lock, please. The caller must decrement dentry_stat.nr_dentry * inside dcache_lock. @@ -85,7 +89,11 @@ static void d_free(struct dentry *dentry) { if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_release) dentry->d_op->d_release(dentry); - call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, d_callback); + /* if dentry was never inserted into hash, immediate free is OK */ + if (dentry->d_hash.pprev == NULL) + __d_free(dentry); + else + call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, d_callback); } /* |