VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes

1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'.  This method
   called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for
   special filesystems.  It is called without locks.

   Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all
   pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now
   use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);

2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations

3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket
   creation.  This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
   /proc/pid/fd/...

4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe
   creation.  This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
   /proc/pid/fd/...

A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a
*nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz :

3.090 s instead of 3.450 s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 63f64a9a5bf7..aab53df4fafa 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
         int (*d_delete)(struct dentry *);
         void (*d_release)(struct dentry *);
         void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *);
+        char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int);
 };
 
 /* the dentry parameter passed to d_hash and d_compare is the parent
@@ -293,6 +294,11 @@ extern struct dentry * d_hash_and_lookup(struct dentry *, struct qstr *);
 /* validate "insecure" dentry pointer */
 extern int d_validate(struct dentry *, struct dentry *);
 
+/*
+ * helper function for dentry_operations.d_dname() members
+ */
+extern char *dynamic_dname(struct dentry *, char *, int, const char *, ...);
+
 extern char * d_path(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *, char *, int);
   
 /* Allocation counts.. */