Re: [PATCH] vfs: dont chain pipe/anon/socket on superblock s_inodeslist

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jul 26 2011 - 05:42:17 EST


On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:36:34AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> [PATCH v2] vfs: dont chain pipe/anon/socket on superblock s_inodes list
>
> Workloads using pipes and sockets hit inode_sb_list_lock contention.
>
> superblock s_inodes list is needed for quota, dirty, pagecache and
> fsnotify management. pipe/anon/socket fs are clearly not candidates for
> these.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

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