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authorASANO Masahiro <masano@tnes.nec.co.jp>2006-08-22 20:06:02 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2006-08-24 15:49:14 -0400
commita634904a7de0d3a0bc606f608007a34e8c05bfee (patch)
tree936d436adb118f7e7fbadd6eabf5296693861df0 /fs
parentddeff520f02b92128132c282c350fa72afffb84a (diff)
VFS: add lookup hint for network file systems
I'm trying to speeding up mkdir(2) for network file systems. A typical mkdir(2) calls two inode_operations: lookup and mkdir. The lookup operation would fail with ENOENT in common case. I think it is unnecessary because the subsequent mkdir operation can check it. In case of creat(2), lookup operation is called with the LOOKUP_CREATE flag, so individual filesystem can omit real lookup. e.g. nfs_lookup(). Here is a sample patch which uses LOOKUP_CREATE and O_EXCL on mkdir, symlink and mknod. This uses the gadget for creat(2). And here is the result of a benchmark on NFSv3. mkdir(2) 10,000 times: original 50.5 sec patched 29.0 sec Signed-off-by: ASANO Masahiro <masano@tnes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from fab7bf44449b29f9d5572a5dd8adcf7c91d5bf0f commit)
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 55a131230f9..863166441bf 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1767,6 +1767,8 @@ struct dentry *lookup_create(struct nameidata *nd, int is_dir)
if (nd->last_type != LAST_NORM)
goto fail;
nd->flags &= ~LOOKUP_PARENT;
+ nd->flags |= LOOKUP_CREATE;
+ nd->intent.open.flags = O_EXCL;
/*
* Do the final lookup.