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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2007-05-08 00:26:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 11:15:03 -0700
commitc23fbb6bcb3eb9cdf39a103edadf57bde8ce309c (patch)
treed79ab2278774de2c1a8061aa948ed068902e87b4 /fs/pipe.c
parent2793274298c4423d79701e9a8190f2940bf3c785 (diff)
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VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes
1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'. This method called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for special filesystems. It is called without locks. Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen); 2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations 3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to /proc/pid/fd/... 4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to /proc/pid/fd/... A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a *nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz : 3.090 s instead of 3.450 s Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pipe.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c18
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index ebafde7d6aba..3a89592bdf57 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -841,8 +841,18 @@ static int pipefs_delete_dentry(struct dentry *dentry)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * pipefs_dname() is called from d_path().
+ */
+static char *pipefs_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
+{
+ return dynamic_dname(dentry, buffer, buflen, "pipe:[%lu]",
+ dentry->d_inode->i_ino);
+}
+
static struct dentry_operations pipefs_dentry_operations = {
.d_delete = pipefs_delete_dentry,
+ .d_dname = pipefs_dname,
};
static struct inode * get_pipe_inode(void)
@@ -888,8 +898,7 @@ struct file *create_write_pipe(void)
struct inode *inode;
struct file *f;
struct dentry *dentry;
- char name[32];
- struct qstr this;
+ struct qstr name = { .name = "" };
f = get_empty_filp();
if (!f)
@@ -899,11 +908,8 @@ struct file *create_write_pipe(void)
if (!inode)
goto err_file;
- this.len = sprintf(name, "[%lu]", inode->i_ino);
- this.name = name;
- this.hash = 0;
err = -ENOMEM;
- dentry = d_alloc(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &this);
+ dentry = d_alloc(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &name);
if (!dentry)
goto err_inode;