netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/6] fs: Introduce special dentries for pipes, socket, anon fd

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Message-Id: <20081127.002015.221466656.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:20:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org, efault@....de,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] fs: Introduce special dentries for pipes, socket,
 anon fd

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:31:40 +0100

> Sockets, pipes and anonymous fds have interesting properties.
 ...
> This patch defines a new DCACHE_SPECIAL flag, to mark a dentry as
> a special one (for sockets, pipes, anonymous fd), and a new
> d_alloc_special(const struct qstr *name, struct inode *inode)
> method, called by the three subsystems.
> 
> Internally, dput() can take a fast path to dput_special() for
> special dentries, avoiding an expensive atomic_dec_and_lock()
> 
> Differences betwen a special dentry and a normal one are :
> 
> 1) Special dentry has the DCACHE_SPECIAL flag
> 2) Special dentry's parent are themselves.
>    This to avoid taking a reference on 'root' dentry, shared
>    by too many dentries.
> 3) They are not hashed into global hash table
> 4) Their d_alias list is empty
> 
> (socket8 bench result : from 27.5s to 24s)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

Networking bits look fine:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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