Commit 820249ba authored by John McCutchan's avatar John McCutchan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] inotify speedup 



Bypass an inotify-related fastpath spinlock and several function calls on
systems which have no inotify watches registered.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 19306059

fs/inotify.c

+7 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ 
#include <asm/ioctls.h>



static atomic_t inotify_cookie;

static atomic_t inotify_watches;



static kmem_cache_t *watch_cachep;

static kmem_cache_t *event_cachep;
@@ -422,6 +423,7 @@ static struct inotify_watch *create_watch(struct inotify_device *dev, 
	get_inotify_watch(watch);



	atomic_inc(&dev->user->inotify_watches);

	atomic_inc(&inotify_watches);



	return watch;

}
@@ -454,6 +456,7 @@ static void remove_watch_no_event(struct inotify_watch *watch, 
	list_del(&watch->d_list);



	atomic_dec(&dev->user->inotify_watches);

	atomic_dec(&inotify_watches);

	idr_remove(&dev->idr, watch->wd);

	put_inotify_watch(watch);

}
@@ -532,6 +535,9 @@ void inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(struct dentry *dentry, u32 mask, 
	struct dentry *parent;

	struct inode *inode;



	if (!atomic_read (&inotify_watches))

		return;



	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);

	parent = dentry->d_parent;

	inode = parent->d_inode;
@@ -1043,6 +1049,7 @@ static int __init inotify_setup(void) 
	inotify_max_user_watches = 8192;



	atomic_set(&inotify_cookie, 0);

	atomic_set(&inotify_watches, 0);



	watch_cachep = kmem_cache_create("inotify_watch_cache",

					 sizeof(struct inotify_watch),