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    [PATCH] don't insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable. · d18de5a2
    Eric Dumazet authored
    
    
    We currently insert pipe 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
       pipe code, so that dput() can just kill_it.
    
    This patch, combined with (avoid RCU for never hashed dentries) reduced
    time of { pipe(p); close(p[0]); close(p[1]);} on my UP machine (1.6GHz
    Pentium-M) from 3.23 us to 2.86 us (But this patch does not depend on other
    patches, only bench results)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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