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. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> --- fs/anon_inodes.c | 4 +++- fs/pipe.c | 5 +++-- net/socket.c | 5 +++-- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/net/socket.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/net/socket.c +++ linux-2.6/net/socket.c @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static int sock_alloc_file(struct socket if (unlikely(fd < 0)) return fd; - path.dentry = d_alloc(sock_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &name); + path.dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(sock_mnt->mnt_sb, &name); if (unlikely(!path.dentry)) { put_unused_fd(fd); 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 @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ struct file *anon_inode_getfile(const ch this.name = name; this.len = strlen(name); this.hash = 0; - path.dentry = d_alloc(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &this); + path.dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb, &this); if (!path.dentry) goto err_module; Index: linux-2.6/fs/pipe.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/pipe.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/pipe.c @@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ struct file *create_write_pipe(int flags goto err; err = -ENOMEM; - path.dentry = d_alloc(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &name); + path.dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb, &name); if (!path.dentry) goto err_inode; path.mnt = mntget(pipe_mnt); Index: linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/dcache.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c @@ -1255,6 +1255,18 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * p } EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc); +struct dentry *d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name) +{ + struct dentry *dentry = d_alloc(NULL, name); + if (dentry) { + dentry->d_sb = sb; + dentry->d_parent = dentry; + dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DISCONNECTED; + } + return dentry; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc_pseudo); + struct dentry *d_alloc_name(struct dentry *parent, const char *name) { struct qstr q; Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/dcache.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/dcache.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ extern void d_delete(struct dentry *); /* allocate/de-allocate */ extern struct dentry * d_alloc(struct dentry *, const struct qstr *); +extern struct dentry * d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *); extern struct dentry * d_splice_alias(struct inode *, struct dentry *); extern struct dentry * d_add_ci(struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct qstr *); extern struct dentry * d_obtain_alias(struct 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