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    [PATCH] Improve sget() performance · d549b9ab
    Alexander Viro authored
    sget() is pessimistic and assumes it won't find a superblock - and as a
    result it always pre-allocates a new one before even searching for an
    existing entry.  If it finds an existing one, it free's the extra one it
    just allocated.
    
    Especially with /proc usage it usually _does_ find an existing
    superblock, so this is all extra work.  It should allocate a new one
    only if it couldn't find an old one (and re-search).
    
    The same way as iget() does it.
    d549b9ab
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