On Feb 7 2007 19:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:03:05PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> With filesystems that can turn on their quota after mount time (about >> every fs except xfs), I can surely have a ton of files open, and hence, >> if I understand correctly, have lots of inodes instantiated. > >Yes, you can in theory. But turning on quota on a filesystem in full >steam useage is not a common use case and thus there is no point in >optimizing for it. I put it to a test in a default scenario (quotaon sometime at boot). SUSE Linux 10.1 with reiserfs(usrquota,grpquota). This is the result: add_dquot_ref: 30 files in sb->s_files for hda2 add_dquot_ref: Restarting after 12 files add_dquot_ref: 30 files in sb->s_files for hda2 add_dquot_ref: Restarted 1 times add_dquot_ref: 30 files in sb->s_files for hda2 add_dquot_ref: Restarting after 12 files add_dquot_ref: 30 files in sb->s_files for hda2 add_dquot_ref: Restarted 1 times Surprisingly few. I had expected to see more instantiated (but not necessarily open) files. Patch for reference: Index: 18/fs/dquot.c =================================================================== --- 18.orig/fs/dquot.c +++ 18/fs/dquot.c @@ -689,22 +689,35 @@ static int dqinit_needed(struct inode *i static void add_dquot_ref(struct super_block *sb, int type) { struct list_head *p; + int restart = 0; + int num_files; restart: file_list_lock(); + num_files = 0; + list_for_each(p, &sb->s_files) { + ++num_files; + } + printk(KERN_WARNING "add_dquot_ref: %d files in sb->s_files for %s\n", + num_files, sb->s_id); + num_files = 0; list_for_each(p, &sb->s_files) { struct file *filp = list_entry(p, struct file, f_u.fu_list); struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode; + ++num_files; if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE && dqinit_needed(inode, type)) { struct dentry *dentry = dget(filp->f_dentry); file_list_unlock(); sb->dq_op->initialize(inode, type); dput(dentry); /* As we may have blocked we had better restart... */ + printk(KERN_WARNING "add_dquot_ref: Restarting after %d files\n", num_files); + ++restart; goto restart; } } file_list_unlock(); + printk(KERN_WARNING "add_dquot_ref: Restarted %d times\n", restart); } /* Return 0 if dqput() won't block (note that 1 doesn't necessarily mean blocking) */ BTW, whilst looking for the function to return a readable name, I came across reiserfs_bdevname() and bdevname(). The former uses sb->s_id, the latter struct gendisk->hd_name+partition number. Could someone elaborate on why there are two ways? Jan -- ft: http://freshmeat.net/p/chaostables/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html