linux/Documentation/filesystems
Eric Dumazet c23fbb6bcb 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>
2007-05-08 11:15:03 -07:00
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configfs Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
9p.txt 9p: implement optional loose read cache 2007-02-18 10:16:10 -06:00
00-INDEX 9p: implement optional loose read cache 2007-02-18 10:16:10 -06:00
adfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
affs.txt [PATCH] kernel Doc/ URL corrections 2005-11-22 09:14:30 -08:00
afs.txt [AFS]: Update the AFS fs documentation. 2007-04-26 15:57:43 -07:00
automount-support.txt VFS: Unexport do_kern_mount() and clean up simple_pin_fs() 2006-06-09 09:34:16 -04:00
befs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R' 2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
bfs.txt [PATCH] update Tigran's email addresses 2006-12-13 09:05:53 -08:00
cifs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
coda.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
cramfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dentry-locking.txt [PATCH] VFS: split dentry locking documentation 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
directory-locking Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
dlmfs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E' 2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
Exporting Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ext2.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P' 2006-10-03 22:52:05 +02:00
ext3.txt [PATCH] ext3: Add "-o bh" option 2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
ext4.txt [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt 2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00
files.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
fuse.txt [PATCH] fuse: fix typo 2006-12-30 10:56:45 -08:00
gfs2.txt [GFS2] Update documentation 2006-04-25 15:44:04 -04:00
hfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
hpfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
inotify.txt [PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation 2006-06-20 05:25:19 -04:00
isofs.txt It's UTF-8 2006-03-22 00:13:35 +01:00
jfs.txt It's UTF-8 2006-03-22 00:13:35 +01:00
Locking VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes 2007-05-08 11:15:03 -07:00
ncpfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ntfs.txt NTFS: 2.1.28 - Fix deadlock reported by Sergey Vlasov due to ntfs_put_inode(). 2007-01-18 09:42:48 +00:00
ocfs2.txt ocfs2: update mount option documentation 2006-12-07 17:48:41 -08:00
porting [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
proc.txt proc: maps protection 2007-05-08 11:15:02 -07:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt [PATCH] Initramfs docs update 2006-06-25 10:01:21 -07:00
relay.txt [PATCH] Relay: add CPU hotplug support 2007-02-11 10:51:28 -08:00
romfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
smbfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
spufs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
sysfs-pci.txt Fix typos concerning hierarchy 2007-02-17 19:23:03 +01:00
sysfs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E' 2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
sysv-fs.txt [PATCH] fs/sysv/: doc cleanup 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
tmpfs.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
udf.txt [PATCH] Update udf documentation to reflect current state of read/write support 2006-11-16 11:43:38 -08:00
ufs.txt [PATCH] ufs2 write: mount as rw 2007-02-12 09:48:40 -08:00
vfat.txt Documentation: remove duplicated words 2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
vfs.txt VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes 2007-05-08 11:15:03 -07:00
xfs.txt [XFS] Update XFS documentation. 2005-11-03 13:46:43 +11:00
xip.txt [PATCH] xip: description 2005-06-24 00:06:42 -07:00