[PATCH] dcache: avoid RCU for never-hashed dentries
Some dentries don't need to be globally visible in dentry hashtable. (pipes & sockets) Such dentries dont need to wait for a RCU grace period at delete time. Being able to free them permits a better CPU cache use (hot cache) This patch combined with (dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable) reduced time of { pipe(p); close(p[0]); close(p[1]);} on my UP machine (1.6 GHz Pentium-M) from 3.23 us to 2.86 us (But this patch does not depend on other patches, only bench results) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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