The patch titled
clean out unused code in dentry pruning
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
clean-out-unused-code-in-dentry-pruning.patch
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Subject: clean out unused code in dentry pruning
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
It looks like in the end all pruners want parents removed.
So remove unused code and function arguments.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/dcache.c | 24 ++++++++++--------------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/dcache.c~clean-out-unused-code-in-dentry-pruning fs/dcache.c
--- a/fs/dcache.c~clean-out-unused-code-in-dentry-pruning
+++ a/fs/dcache.c
@@ -381,20 +381,17 @@ restart:
* Throw away a dentry - free the inode, dput the parent. This requires that
* the LRU list has already been removed.
*
- * If prune_parents is true, try to prune ancestors as well.
+ * Try to prune ancestors as well. This is necessary to prevent
+ * quadratic behavior of shrink_dcache_parent(), but is also expected
+ * to be beneficial in reducing dentry cache fragmentation.
*
* Called with dcache_lock, drops it and then regains.
* Called with dentry->d_lock held, drops it.
*/
-static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry, int prune_parents)
+static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry)
{
__d_drop(dentry);
dentry = d_kill(dentry);
- if (!prune_parents) {
- dput(dentry);
- spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
- return;
- }
/*
* Prune ancestors. Locking is simpler than in dput(),
@@ -422,7 +419,6 @@ static void prune_one_dentry(struct dent
* @count: number of entries to try and free
* @sb: if given, ignore dentries for other superblocks
* which are being unmounted.
- * @prune_parents: if true, try to prune ancestors as well in one go
*
* Shrink the dcache. This is done when we need
* more memory, or simply when we need to unmount
@@ -433,7 +429,7 @@ static void prune_one_dentry(struct dent
* all the dentries are in use.
*/
-static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb, int prune_parents)
+static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb)
{
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
for (; count ; count--) {
@@ -493,7 +489,7 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count, stru
* without taking the s_umount lock (I already hold it).
*/
if (sb && dentry->d_sb == sb) {
- prune_one_dentry(dentry, prune_parents);
+ prune_one_dentry(dentry);
continue;
}
/*
@@ -508,7 +504,7 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count, stru
s_umount = &dentry->d_sb->s_umount;
if (down_read_trylock(s_umount)) {
if (dentry->d_sb->s_root != NULL) {
- prune_one_dentry(dentry, prune_parents);
+ prune_one_dentry(dentry);
up_read(s_umount);
continue;
}
@@ -579,7 +575,7 @@ repeat:
spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
continue;
}
- prune_one_dentry(dentry, 1);
+ prune_one_dentry(dentry);
cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock);
goto repeat;
}
@@ -858,7 +854,7 @@ void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry
int found;
while ((found = select_parent(parent)) != 0)
- prune_dcache(found, parent->d_sb, 1);
+ prune_dcache(found, parent->d_sb);
}
/*
@@ -878,7 +874,7 @@ static int shrink_dcache_memory(int nr,
if (nr) {
if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
return -1;
- prune_dcache(nr, NULL, 1);
+ prune_dcache(nr, NULL);
}
return (dentry_stat.nr_unused / 100) * sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure;
}
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ext2-show-all-mount-options.patch
ext3-show-all-mount-options.patch
ext4-show-all-mount-options.patch
vfs-check-nanoseconds-in-utimensat.patch
fix-execute-checking-in-permission.patch
exec-remove-unnecessary-check-for-mnt_noexec.patch
clean-out-unused-code-in-dentry-pruning.patch
unprivileged-mounts-add-user-mounts-to-the-kernel.patch
unprivileged-mounts-allow-unprivileged-umount.patch
unprivileged-mounts-account-user-mounts.patch
unprivileged-mounts-propagate-error-values-from-clone_mnt.patch
unprivileged-mounts-allow-unprivileged-bind-mounts.patch
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unprivileged-mounts-allow-unprivileged-mounts.patch
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unprivileged-mounts-allow-unprivileged-fuse-mounts.patch
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unprivileged-mounts-propagation-inherit-owner-from-parent-fix-for-git-audit.patch
unprivileged-mounts-add-no-submounts-flag.patch
fuse-update-backing_dev_info-congestion-state.patch
fuse-fix-reserved-request-wake-up.patch
fuse-add-reference-counting-to-fuse_file.patch
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fuse-fix-page-invalidation.patch
fuse-set-i_nlink-to-sane-value-after-mount.patch
fuse-refresh-stale-attributes-in-fuse_permission.patch
fuse-fix-permission-checking-on-sticky-directories.patch
fuse-fix-permission-checking-on-sticky-directories-fix.patch
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fuse-no-enoent-from-fuse-device-read.patch
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