The nr_dentry stat is a globally touched cacheline and atomic operation twice over the lifetime of a dentry. It is used for the benfit of userspace only. We could make a per-cpu counter or something for it, but it is only accessed via proc, so we could use slab stats. XXX: must implement slab routines to return stats for a single cache, and implement the proc handler. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- fs/dcache.c | 5 +---- include/linux/dcache.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/dcache.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static struct dcache_hash_bucket *dentry /* Statistics gathering. */ struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat = { - .nr_dentry = ATOMIC_INIT(0), + .nr_dentry = 0, .age_limit = 45, }; @@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ static void d_callback(struct rcu_head * */ static void d_free(struct dentry *dentry) { - atomic_dec(&dentry_stat.nr_dentry); BUG_ON(dentry->d_count); if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_release) dentry->d_op->d_release(dentry); @@ -1249,8 +1248,6 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * p spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock); } - atomic_inc(&dentry_stat.nr_dentry); - return dentry; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc); Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/dcache.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/dcache.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ struct qstr { }; struct dentry_stat_t { - atomic_t nr_dentry; + int nr_dentry; /* unused */ int nr_unused; /* protected by dcache_lru_lock */ int age_limit; /* age in seconds */ int want_pages; /* pages requested by system */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/