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Andrew Morton authored
The big SMP machines are seeing quite some contention in dnotify_parent() (via vfs_write). This function is hammering the global dparent_lock. However we don't actually need a global dparent_lock for pinning down dentry->d_parent. We can use dentry->d_lock for this. That is already being held across d_move. This patch speeds up SDET on the 16-way by 5% and wipes dnotify_parent() off the profiles. It also uninlines dnofity_parent(). It also uses spin_lock(), which is faster than read_lock(). I'm not sure that we need to take both the source and target dentry's d_lock in d_move. The patch also does lots of s/__inline__/inline/ in dcache.h
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