[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>
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index a7c67ce..d68631f 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -68,15 +68,19 @@
.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 @@
{
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);
}
/*
