On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:29:49AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 08:14:57PM +0200, Jaromír Doleček wrote: > > 2018-08-09 19:40 GMT+02:00 Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com>: > > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 10:10:07AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > > >> 100.00 2054 14.18 kernel_lock <all> > > >> 47.43 846 6.72 kernel_lock fileassoc_file_delete+20 > > >> 23.73 188 3.36 kernel_lock intr_biglock_wrapper+16 > > >> 16.01 203 2.27 kernel_lock scsipi_adapter_request+63 > > > Actually, I wonder if we could kill off the time spent by fileassoc. Is > > > it still used only by veriexec? We can easily option that out of the > > > build > > > box kernels. > > > > Or even better, make it less heavy? > > > > It's not really intuitive that you could improve filesystem > > performance by removing this obscure component. > > If it is not in use, fileassoc_file_delete will short cut already.
...and of course, the check seems to be just useless. So yes, it should be possible to make it much less heavy. Joerg
