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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2007-10-16 23:27:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 08:42:52 -0700
commit85864e103850962389d77467391bc3da021d070f (patch)
treeb671ff5e8c27d3856290faedcd365d5bebacabd1 /fs/dcache.c
parent1a159dd229e6a70e3ffd3f785cb51fa61b232279 (diff)
downloadlinux-next-85864e103850962389d77467391bc3da021d070f.tar.gz
clean out unused code in dentry pruning
It looks like in the end all pruners want parents removed. So remove unused code and function arguments. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c24
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 920c87720385..bde6057c5df6 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -381,20 +381,17 @@ restart:
* Throw away a dentry - free the inode, dput the parent. This requires that
* the LRU list has already been removed.
*
- * If prune_parents is true, try to prune ancestors as well.
+ * Try to prune ancestors as well. This is necessary to prevent
+ * quadratic behavior of shrink_dcache_parent(), but is also expected
+ * to be beneficial in reducing dentry cache fragmentation.
*
* Called with dcache_lock, drops it and then regains.
* Called with dentry->d_lock held, drops it.
*/
-static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry, int prune_parents)
+static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry)
{
__d_drop(dentry);
dentry = d_kill(dentry);
- if (!prune_parents) {
- dput(dentry);
- spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
- return;
- }
/*
* Prune ancestors. Locking is simpler than in dput(),
@@ -422,7 +419,6 @@ static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry, int prune_parents)
* @count: number of entries to try and free
* @sb: if given, ignore dentries for other superblocks
* which are being unmounted.
- * @prune_parents: if true, try to prune ancestors as well in one go
*
* Shrink the dcache. This is done when we need
* more memory, or simply when we need to unmount
@@ -433,7 +429,7 @@ static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry, int prune_parents)
* all the dentries are in use.
*/
-static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb, int prune_parents)
+static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb)
{
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
for (; count ; count--) {
@@ -493,7 +489,7 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb, int prune_parents)
* without taking the s_umount lock (I already hold it).
*/
if (sb && dentry->d_sb == sb) {
- prune_one_dentry(dentry, prune_parents);
+ prune_one_dentry(dentry);
continue;
}
/*
@@ -508,7 +504,7 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb, int prune_parents)
s_umount = &dentry->d_sb->s_umount;
if (down_read_trylock(s_umount)) {
if (dentry->d_sb->s_root != NULL) {
- prune_one_dentry(dentry, prune_parents);
+ prune_one_dentry(dentry);
up_read(s_umount);
continue;
}
@@ -579,7 +575,7 @@ repeat:
spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
continue;
}
- prune_one_dentry(dentry, 1);
+ prune_one_dentry(dentry);
cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock);
goto repeat;
}
@@ -858,7 +854,7 @@ void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry * parent)
int found;
while ((found = select_parent(parent)) != 0)
- prune_dcache(found, parent->d_sb, 1);
+ prune_dcache(found, parent->d_sb);
}
/*
@@ -878,7 +874,7 @@ static int shrink_dcache_memory(int nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
if (nr) {
if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
return -1;
- prune_dcache(nr, NULL, 1);
+ prune_dcache(nr, NULL);
}
return (dentry_stat.nr_unused / 100) * sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure;
}