Re: dentry bloat.

[Dipankar Sarma]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:26:45AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:54:04AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Ok, I can spin something up. I'll start with a generic no-RCU-on-UP
> > and then we can think about the small SMP case a bit later.
> 
> Hello, Matt,
> 
> You may wish to start with the dcache portion of Dipankar's earlier patch:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3644163&forum_id=730
> 
> It does not remove the extra rcu_head from the dentry, but does the
> rest of the work.

Matt and I had discussed this privately sometime ago and I will
send him somewhat cleaned up patches that introduces call_rcu_direct()
which, in UP kernel, invokes the callback directly. The corresponding
read-side critical section will have to protect itself with
rcu_read_lock_bh() or rcu_read_lock_irq() if an update can happen
from softirq or irq context.

Thanks
Dipankar
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