Re: [PATCH v3 8/8] fsnotify: optimize away srcu_read_lock() for events on directories

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On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 12:09 PM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu 04-10-18 00:25:39, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > inotify and dnotify are always interested in events on directories.
> > fanotify is interested in events on directories only if user requested
> > them by flag FAN_ONDIR.
> >
> > For the fanotify supported events on directories (open/access/close),
> > if there is no inotify/dnotify associated marks and if none of the
> > associated fanotify marks have the FS_ISDIR flag, we can skip iterating
> > the marks and we avoid taking the srcu_read_lock() for all events on
> > directories.
> >
> > In order to enable this check in fsnotify() we set the FS_ISDIR flag
> > explicitly on all dnotify/inotify marks.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c      | 5 +++--
> >  fs/notify/fsnotify.c             | 9 ++++++++-
> >  fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 4 ++--
> >  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Looks good, except I think you forgot to convert kernel/audit_watch.c and
> kernel/audit_fsnotify.c which also need to set FS_ISDIR...
>

Oops. Right.
So would you rather I come back with a fixed version after I ran
some performance tests?
Or will you fix and test it yourself?

Thanks,
Amir.



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