tree 01d296cba9583c05a88ea19e68f40f3817829a39
parent 19306059cd7fedaf96b4b0260a9a8a45e513c857
author John McCutchan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:16:38 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:57:19 -0700

[PATCH] inotify speedup

Bypass an inotify-related fastpath spinlock and several function calls on
systems which have no inotify watches registered.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

 fs/inotify.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c
--- a/fs/inotify.c
+++ b/fs/inotify.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <asm/ioctls.h>
 
 static atomic_t inotify_cookie;
+static atomic_t inotify_watches;
 
 static kmem_cache_t *watch_cachep;
 static kmem_cache_t *event_cachep;
@@ -422,6 +423,7 @@ static struct inotify_watch *create_watc
        get_inotify_watch(watch);
 
        atomic_inc(&dev->user->inotify_watches);
+       atomic_inc(&inotify_watches);
 
        return watch;
 }
@@ -454,6 +456,7 @@ static void remove_watch_no_event(struct
        list_del(&watch->d_list);
 
        atomic_dec(&dev->user->inotify_watches);
+       atomic_dec(&inotify_watches);
        idr_remove(&dev->idr, watch->wd);
        put_inotify_watch(watch);
 }
@@ -532,6 +535,9 @@ void inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(s
        struct dentry *parent;
        struct inode *inode;
 
+       if (!atomic_read (&inotify_watches))
+               return;
+
        spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
        parent = dentry->d_parent;
        inode = parent->d_inode;
@@ -1043,6 +1049,7 @@ static int __init inotify_setup(void)
        inotify_max_user_watches = 8192;
 
        atomic_set(&inotify_cookie, 0);
+       atomic_set(&inotify_watches, 0);
 
        watch_cachep = kmem_cache_create("inotify_watch_cache",
                                         sizeof(struct inotify_watch),
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