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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2006-12-06 20:38:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 08:39:41 -0800
commit304e61e6fbadec586dfe002b535f169a04248e49 (patch)
treeb70c8ec7ca6b538b5d02f3c5372a35268643a5bf /ipc
parentb3423415fbc2e5461605826317da1c8dbbf21f97 (diff)
[PATCH] net: don't insert socket dentries into dentry_hashtable
We currently insert socket dentries into the global dentry hashtable. This is suboptimal because there is currently no way these entries can be used for a lookup(). (/proc/xxx/fd/xxx uses a different mechanism). Inserting them in dentry hashtable slows dcache lookups. To let __dpath() still work correctly (ie not adding a " (deleted)") after dentry name, we do : - Right after d_alloc(), pretend they are hashed by clearing the DCACHE_UNHASHED bit. - Call d_instantiate() instead of d_add() : dentry is not inserted in hash table. __dpath() & friends work as intended during dentry lifetime. - At dismantle time, once dput() must clear the dentry, setting again DCACHE_UNHASHED bit inside the custom d_delete() function provided by socket code, so that dput() can just kill_it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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