Re: udevd is killing file write performance.

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John McCutchan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  > > @@ -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 mountpoint - the parent is on a
>  > different fs?
> 
>  There are four cases to consider here.
> 
>  Case 1: parent fs watched and child fs watched
>  	correct results
>  Case 2: parent fs watched and child fs not watched
>  	We may not deliver an event that should be delivered.
>  Case 3: parent fs not watched and child fs watched
>  	We take d_lock when we don't need to
>  Case 4: parent fs not watched and child fs not watched
>  	correct results
> 
>  Case 2 screws us. We have to take the lock to even look at the parent's
>  dentry->d_sb->s_inotify_watches. I don't know of a way around this one.

Yeah.  There are a lot of "screw"s in this thread.

I wonder if RCU can save us - if we do an rcu_read_lock() we at least know
that the dentries won't get deallocated.  Then we can take a look at
d_parent (which might not be the parent any more).  Once in a million years
we might send a false event or miss sending an event, depending on where
our dentry suddenly got moved to.  Not very nice, but at least it won't
oops.

(hopefully cc's Dipankar)
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