Re: udevd is killing file write performance.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> > 
> > I have a bad feeling about this one.  It'd be nice to have an exact
> > understanding of the problen source, but if it's just lots of traffic on
> > ->d_lock we're kinda stuck.  I don't expect we'll run off and RCUify
> > d_parent or turn d_lock into a seq_lock or anything liek that.
> > 
> > Then again, maybe making d_lock an rwlock _will_ help - if this workload is
> > also hitting tree_lock (Robin?) and we're not seeing suckiness due to that
> > then perhaps the rwlock is magically helping.
> > 
> > 
> > > instead of your hack.
> > 
> > It's not a terribly bad hack - it's just poor-man's hashing, and it's
> > reasonably well-suited to the sorts of machines and workloads which we
> > expect will hit this problem.
> > 
> 
> If this is as good as it gets, here is a patch (totally untested).
> 
> ...
> @@ -538,7 +537,7 @@
>  	struct dentry *parent;
>  	struct inode *inode;
>  
> -	if (!atomic_read (&inotify_watches))
> +	if (!atomic_read (&dentry->d_sb->s_inotify_watches))
>  		return;
>  

What happens here if we're watching a mointpoint - the parent is on a
different fs?