linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 6/8] dcache: stop walking siblings if remaining dentries all negative

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Date:   Fri, 08 May 2020 15:23:28 +0300
From:   Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 6/8] dcache: stop walking siblings if remaining dentries
 all negative

Most walkers are interested only in positive dentries.

Changes in simple_* libfs helpers are mostly cosmetic: it shouldn't cache
negative dentries unless uses d_delete other than always_delete_dentry().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
---
 fs/dcache.c |   10 ++++++++++
 fs/libfs.c  |   10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 44c6832d21d6..0fd2e02e507b 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1442,6 +1442,9 @@ static enum d_walk_ret path_check_mount(void *data, struct dentry *dentry)
 	struct check_mount *info = data;
 	struct path path = { .mnt = info->mnt, .dentry = dentry };
 
+	if (d_is_tail_negative(dentry))
+		return D_WALK_SKIP_SIBLINGS;
+
 	if (likely(!d_mountpoint(dentry)))
 		return D_WALK_CONTINUE;
 	if (__path_is_mountpoint(&path)) {
@@ -1688,6 +1691,10 @@ void shrink_dcache_for_umount(struct super_block *sb)
 static enum d_walk_ret find_submount(void *_data, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	struct dentry **victim = _data;
+
+	if (d_is_tail_negative(dentry))
+		return D_WALK_SKIP_SIBLINGS;
+
 	if (d_mountpoint(dentry)) {
 		__dget_dlock(dentry);
 		*victim = dentry;
@@ -3159,6 +3166,9 @@ static enum d_walk_ret d_genocide_kill(void *data, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	struct dentry *root = data;
 	if (dentry != root) {
+		if (d_is_tail_negative(dentry))
+			return D_WALK_SKIP_SIBLINGS;
+
 		if (d_unhashed(dentry) || !dentry->d_inode)
 			return D_WALK_SKIP;
 
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 3759fbacf522..de944c241cf0 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ static struct dentry *scan_positives(struct dentry *cursor,
 	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	while ((p = p->next) != &dentry->d_subdirs) {
 		struct dentry *d = list_entry(p, struct dentry, d_child);
+
+		if (d_is_tail_negative(d))
+			break;
+
 		// we must at least skip cursors, to avoid livelocks
 		if (d->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR)
 			continue;
@@ -255,7 +259,8 @@ static struct dentry *find_next_child(struct dentry *parent, struct dentry *prev
 			spin_unlock(&d->d_lock);
 			if (likely(child))
 				break;
-		}
+		} else if (d_is_tail_negative(d))
+			break;
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
 	dput(prev);
@@ -408,6 +413,9 @@ int simple_empty(struct dentry *dentry)
 
 	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(child, &dentry->d_subdirs, d_child) {
+		if (d_is_tail_negative(child))
+			break;
+
 		spin_lock_nested(&child->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
 		if (simple_positive(child)) {
 			spin_unlock(&child->d_lock);