kernfs: use VFS negative dentry caching
authorIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:28:24 +0000 (17:28 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:29:14 +0000 (09:29 +0200)
commitc7e7c04274b13f98f758fb69b03f2ab61976ea80
treea2c5221808b75a5d0710372f60cc8f7da12788cc
parent895adbec302e92086359e6fd92611ac3be6d92c3
kernfs: use VFS negative dentry caching

If there are many lookups for non-existent paths these negative lookups
can lead to a lot of overhead during path walks.

The VFS allows dentries to be created as negative and hashed, and caches
them so they can be used to reduce the fairly high overhead alloc/free
cycle that occurs during these lookups.

Use the kernfs node parent revision to identify if a change has been
made to the containing directory so that the negative dentry can be
discarded and the lookup redone.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162642770420.63632.15791924970508867106.stgit@web.messagingengine.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/kernfs/dir.c