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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>2011-01-07 01:50:07 -0500
committerNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>2011-01-07 01:50:32 -0500
commit4b936885ab04dc6e0bb0ef35e0e23c1a7364d9e5 (patch)
treea0173d27c1ce39f173be404d269c2f15144072ab /fs/anon_inodes.c
parent873feea09ebc980cbd3631b767356ce1eee65ec1 (diff)
fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems
Regardless of how much we possibly try to scale dcache, there is likely always going to be some fundamental contention when adding or removing children under the same parent. Pseudo filesystems do not seem need to have connected dentries because by definition they are disconnected. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/anon_inodes.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/anon_inodes.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/anon_inodes.c b/fs/anon_inodes.c
index aca8806fa206..9d92b33da8a0 100644
--- a/fs/anon_inodes.c
+++ b/fs/anon_inodes.c
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ struct file *anon_inode_getfile(const char *name,
102 this.name = name; 102 this.name = name;
103 this.len = strlen(name); 103 this.len = strlen(name);
104 this.hash = 0; 104 this.hash = 0;
105 path.dentry = d_alloc(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &this); 105 path.dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb, &this);
106 if (!path.dentry) 106 if (!path.dentry)
107 goto err_module; 107 goto err_module;
108 108