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From: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rml@novell.com, arnd@arndb.de,
	hch@lst.de, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: udevd is killing file write performance.
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:48:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140626903.13461.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060222134250.GE20786@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com>

On Wed, 2006-22-02 at 07:42 -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> 
> I know _VERY_ little about filesystems.  udevd appears to be looking
> at /etc/udev/rules.d.  This bumps inotify_watches to 1.  The file
> being written is on an xfs filesystem mounted at a different mountpoint.
> Could the inotify flag be moved from a global to a sb (or something
> finer) point and therefore avoid taking the dentry->d_lock when there
> is no possibility of a watch event being queued.

We could do this, and avoid the problem, but only in this specific
scenario. The file being written is on a different mountpoint but whats
to stop a different app from running inotify on that mount point?
Perhaps the program could be altered instead? 

-- 
John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-22 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-22 13:42 udevd is killing file write performance Robin Holt
2006-02-22 13:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-22 16:48 ` John McCutchan [this message]
2006-02-22 17:50   ` Robin Holt
2006-02-22 20:05     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-22 21:50       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-02-23 12:56       ` Robin Holt
2006-02-23 13:42         ` David Chinner
2006-02-22 22:52     ` John McCutchan
2006-02-22 23:12       ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-22 23:41         ` John McCutchan
2006-02-24  0:14           ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-24  0:14           ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-24  5:47             ` John McCutchan
2006-02-24  6:00               ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-24  7:07                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-24  7:16                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-24  7:19                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-26 16:58                       ` John McCutchan
2006-02-24 18:56                   ` Robin Holt
2006-02-25  2:44                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-25 15:53                     ` [patch] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentry Nick Piggin
2006-02-28  0:48                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-26 16:55                   ` udevd is killing file write performance John McCutchan
2006-02-27 10:11                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-27 20:17                       ` John McCutchan
2006-02-23 20:38         ` Benjamin LaHaise

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