From 4b936885ab04dc6e0bb0ef35e0e23c1a7364d9e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:50:07 +1100 Subject: 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 --- include/linux/dcache.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/dcache.h') diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index d719e4de8046..c0a2ca97c72f 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ extern void d_set_d_op(struct dentry *dentry, const struct dentry_operations *op /* allocate/de-allocate */ extern struct dentry * d_alloc(struct dentry *, const struct qstr *); +extern struct dentry * d_alloc_pseudo(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *); extern struct dentry * d_splice_alias(struct inode *, struct dentry *); extern struct dentry * d_add_ci(struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct qstr *); extern struct dentry * d_obtain_alias(struct inode *); -- cgit v1.2.2