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[PATCH] don't insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable.

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We currently insert pipe dentries into the global dentry hashtable.  This
is suboptimal because there is currently no way these entries can be used
for a lookup().  (/proc/xxx/fd/xxx uses a different mechanism).  Inserting
them in dentry hashtable slows dcache lookups.

To let __dpath() still work correctly (ie not adding a " (deleted)") after
dentry name, we do :

 - Right after d_alloc(), pretend they are hashed by clearing the
   DCACHE_UNHASHED bit.

 - Call d_instantiate() instead of d_add() : dentry is not inserted in
   hash table.

__dpath() & friends work as intended during dentry lifetime.

 - At dismantle time, once dput() must clear the dentry, setting again
   DCACHE_UNHASHED bit inside the custom d_delete() function provided by
   pipe code, so that dput() can just kill_it.

This patch, combined with (avoid RCU for never hashed dentries) reduced
time of { pipe(p); close(p[0]); close(p[1]);} on my UP machine (1.6GHz
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>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Eric Dumazet 2006-12-06 20:38:45 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 1c69d921ed
commit d18de5a272
1 changed files with 17 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -830,7 +830,14 @@ void free_pipe_info(struct inode *inode)
static struct vfsmount *pipe_mnt __read_mostly;
static int pipefs_delete_dentry(struct dentry *dentry)
{
return 1;
/*
* At creation time, we pretended this dentry was hashed
* (by clearing DCACHE_UNHASHED bit in d_flags)
* At delete time, we restore the truth : not hashed.
* (so that dput() can proceed correctly)
*/
dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_UNHASHED;
return 0;
}
static struct dentry_operations pipefs_dentry_operations = {
@ -891,17 +898,22 @@ struct file *create_write_pipe(void)
if (!inode)
goto err_file;
sprintf(name, "[%lu]", inode->i_ino);
this.len = sprintf(name, "[%lu]", inode->i_ino);
this.name = name;
this.len = strlen(name);
this.hash = inode->i_ino; /* will go */
this.hash = 0;
err = -ENOMEM;
dentry = d_alloc(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &this);
if (!dentry)
goto err_inode;
dentry->d_op = &pipefs_dentry_operations;
d_add(dentry, inode);
/*
* We dont want to publish this dentry into global dentry hash table.
* We pretend dentry is already hashed, by unsetting DCACHE_UNHASHED
* This permits a working /proc/$pid/fd/XXX on pipes
*/
dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED;
d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
f->f_vfsmnt = mntget(pipe_mnt);
f->f_dentry = dentry;
f->f_mapping = inode->i_mapping;