[PATCH mmotm] fsnotify: don't slow everything down

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Sun May 17 2009 - 09:53:48 EST


Two little fixes to mmotm's fsnotify-parent-event-notification.patch:

Why is copying or building a kernel tree using twice as much system time
as before? Lots of time spent in __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags()
when it shouldn't even get called. Fix | to & in __fsnotify_parent().

And it's probably a bad idea to have DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED
sharing the same d_flags bit as DCACHE_COOKIE: though the COOKIE bit has
prior claim, change it to keep the NOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED bits together.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 2 +-
include/linux/dcache.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- mmotm/fs/notify/fsnotify.c 2009-05-14 11:27:38.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/fs/notify/fsnotify.c 2009-05-17 13:31:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ void __fsnotify_parent(struct dentry *de
bool send = false;
bool should_update_children = false;

- if (!(dentry->d_flags | DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED))
+ if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED))
return;

spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
--- mmotm/include/linux/dcache.h 2009-05-14 11:27:39.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/include/linux/dcache.h 2009-05-17 13:31:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ d_iput: no no no yes
#define DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED 0x0020 /* Parent inode is watched by inotify */
#define DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED 0x0040 /* Parent inode is watched by some fsnotify listener */

-#define DCACHE_COOKIE 0x0040 /* For use by dcookie subsystem */
+#define DCACHE_COOKIE 0x0080 /* For use by dcookie subsystem */

extern spinlock_t dcache_lock;
extern seqlock_t rename_lock;
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