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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/dcache.c
parent2793274298c4423d79701e9a8190f2940bf3c785 (diff)
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/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c31
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 268da2e2bc0..2135ab8bb10 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1853,6 +1853,16 @@ char * d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt,
struct vfsmount *rootmnt;
struct dentry *root;
+ /*
+ * We have various synthetic filesystems that never get mounted. On
+ * these filesystems dentries are never used for lookup purposes, and
+ * thus don't need to be hashed. They also don't need a name until a
+ * user wants to identify the object in /proc/pid/fd/. The little hack
+ * below allows us to generate a name for these objects on demand:
+ */
+ if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_dname)
+ return dentry->d_op->d_dname(dentry, buf, buflen);
+
read_lock(&current->fs->lock);
rootmnt = mntget(current->fs->rootmnt);
root = dget(current->fs->root);
@@ -1866,6 +1876,27 @@ char * d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt,
}
/*
+ * Helper function for dentry_operations.d_dname() members
+ */
+char *dynamic_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen,
+ const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ va_list args;
+ char temp[64];
+ int sz;
+
+ va_start(args, fmt);
+ sz = vsnprintf(temp, sizeof(temp), fmt, args) + 1;
+ va_end(args);
+
+ if (sz > sizeof(temp) || sz > buflen)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+
+ buffer += buflen - sz;
+ return memcpy(buffer, temp, sz);
+}
+
+/*
* NOTE! The user-level library version returns a
* character pointer. The kernel system call just
* returns the length of the buffer filled (which