Regardless of how much we possibly try to scale dcache, there is likely always going to be some fundamental contention when adding or removing children under the same parent. Pseudo filesystems do not seem need to have connected dentries because by definition they are disconnected. XXX: is this right? I can't see any reason why they need to have a real parent. TODO: add a d_instantiate_something() and avoid adding the extra checks for !d_parent --- fs/anon_inodes.c | 2 +- fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c | 2 +- fs/pipe.c | 2 +- include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 2 +- net/socket.c | 2 +- 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ void inotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry { struct dentry *parent; - if (!inode) + if (!inode || !entry->d_parent) return; /* XXX: need parent lock in place of dcache_lock? */ Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static inline void __fsnotify_update_dca */ static inline void __fsnotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode) { - if (!inode) + if (!inode || !dentry->d_parent) return; spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); Index: linux-2.6/net/socket.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/net/socket.c +++ linux-2.6/net/socket.c @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ static int sock_attach_fd(struct socket struct dentry *dentry; struct qstr name = { .name = "" }; - dentry = d_alloc(sock_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &name); + dentry = d_alloc(NULL, &name); if (unlikely(!dentry)) return -ENOMEM; Index: linux-2.6/fs/anon_inodes.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/anon_inodes.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/anon_inodes.c @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ int anon_inode_getfd(const char *name, c this.name = name; this.len = strlen(name); this.hash = 0; - dentry = d_alloc(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &this); + dentry = d_alloc(NULL, &this); if (!dentry) goto err_put_unused_fd; Index: linux-2.6/fs/pipe.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/pipe.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/pipe.c @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ struct file *create_write_pipe(int flags goto err; err = -ENOMEM; - dentry = d_alloc(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &name); + dentry = d_alloc(NULL, &name); if (!dentry) goto err_inode; -- 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