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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/39] vfs: optionally don't account file in nr_files
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 01:47:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180604084739.GD11333@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180529144339.16538-6-mszeredi@redhat.com>

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:43:05PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Stacking file operations in overlay will store an extra open file for each
> overlay file opened.
> 
> The overhead is just that of "struct file" which is about 256bytes, because
> overlay already pins an extra dentry and inode when the file is open, which
> add up to a much larger overhead.

But that overhead is exactly what nr_files accounts for, so this looks
bogus to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-04  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-29 14:43 [PATCH 00/39] overlayfs: stack file operations Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 01/39] vfs: dedpue: return loff_t Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-04  8:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-05  8:33     ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-06 15:09       ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-18 20:08         ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 02/39] vfs: dedupe: rationalize args Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-06 15:02   ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 03/39] vfs: dedupe: extract helper for a single dedup Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 15:41   ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-29 16:04     ` Amir Goldstein
2018-06-04  8:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 04/39] vfs: add path_open() Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-04  8:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-10  4:36     ` Al Viro
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 05/39] vfs: optionally don't account file in nr_files Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-04  8:47   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-06-04  8:57     ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-10  4:41   ` Al Viro
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 06/39] vfs: add f_op->pre_mmap() Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-04  8:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-05 11:36     ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 07/39] vfs: export vfs_ioctl() to modules Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-04  8:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-10  4:57     ` Al Viro
2018-06-11  7:19       ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-11 16:24         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-19 14:04           ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-19 14:24             ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-19 14:34               ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-19 14:54                 ` Al Viro
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 08/39] vfs: export vfs_dedupe_file_range_one() " Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 09/39] ovl: copy up times Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 10/39] ovl: copy up inode flags Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 11/39] Revert "Revert "ovl: get_write_access() in truncate"" Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 12/39] ovl: copy up file size as well Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 13/39] ovl: deal with overlay files in ovl_d_real() Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 14/39] ovl: stack file ops Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-10  4:13   ` Al Viro
2018-06-11  7:09     ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-12  2:29       ` Al Viro
2018-06-12  2:40         ` Al Viro
2018-06-12  9:24           ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-12 18:24             ` Al Viro
2018-06-12 18:31               ` Al Viro
2018-06-13  9:21                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-15  5:47                   ` Al Viro
2018-06-18 11:50                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-13 11:56               ` J. R. Okajima
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 15/39] ovl: add helper to return real file Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-10  5:42   ` Al Viro
2018-06-11  8:11     ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 16/39] ovl: add ovl_read_iter() Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 17/39] ovl: add ovl_write_iter() Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 18/39] ovl: add ovl_fsync() Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 19/39] ovl: add ovl_mmap() Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-10  5:24   ` Al Viro
2018-06-11  7:58     ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 20/39] ovl: add ovl_fallocate() Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 21/39] ovl: add lsattr/chattr support Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 22/39] ovl: add ovl_fiemap() Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 23/39] ovl: add O_DIRECT support Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-10  5:31   ` Al Viro
2018-06-11  8:08     ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 24/39] ovl: add reflink/copyfile/dedup support Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 25/39] vfs: don't open real Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 26/39] ovl: copy-up on MAP_SHARED Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 27/39] ovl: obsolete "check_copy_up" module option Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 15:13   ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-30  8:26     ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 28/39] ovl: fix documentation of non-standard behavior Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 29/39] vfs: simplify dentry_open() Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 30/39] Revert "ovl: fix may_write_real() for overlayfs directories" Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 31/39] Revert "ovl: don't allow writing ioctl on lower layer" Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 32/39] vfs: fix freeze protection in mnt_want_write_file() for overlayfs Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-04  8:50   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 33/39] Revert "ovl: fix relatime for directories" Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 34/39] Revert "vfs: update ovl inode before relatime check" Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 35/39] Revert "vfs: add flags to d_real()" Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 36/39] Revert "vfs: do get_write_access() on upper layer of overlayfs" Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 37/39] Partially revert "locks: fix file locking on overlayfs" Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 38/39] Revert "fsnotify: support overlayfs" Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:43 ` [PATCH 39/39] vfs: remove open_flags from d_real() Miklos Szeredi

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