On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 11:35 -0500, wkendall@xxxxxxx wrote: > > In order to resolve a pathname, xfsrestore must work from an inode > number (from the dump) and recurse up the directory entry tree that it > has constructed. Each level of recursion requires a seek and read to > get the name of the dirent, and possibly a mmap of a section of the > directory entry tree if it is not already mapped (and in that case, > possibly a munmap of another section). It's quite common to resolve > pathnames in the same directory consecutively, so simply caching the > parent directory pathname from the previous lookup saves quite a bit > of overhead. > > Signed-off-by: Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx> I think an assertion would do in a place I show below, but it's nothing to worry about. Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> > --- > restore/tree.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > Index: xfsdump-kernel.org/restore/tree.c > =================================================================== > --- xfsdump-kernel.org.orig/restore/tree.c > +++ xfsdump-kernel.org/restore/tree.c . . . > @@ -3475,6 +3486,13 @@ Node2path_recurse( nh_t nh, char *buf, i > return bufsz; > } > > + /* if we have a cache hit, no need to recurse any further > + */ > + if ( nh == cache.nh && bufsz > cache.len ) { Since a nh basically encodes the entire path, the check that the buffer is big enough should not be necessary, and could probably be inserted instead: ASSERT(bufsz > cache.len); > + strcpy( buf, cache.buf ); > + return bufsz - cache.len; > + } > + > /* extract useful node members > */ > np = Node_map( nh ); . . . _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs