# Re: \[PATCH\] vfs: dont chain pipe/anon/socket on superblock s\_inodes list

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@infradead.org\>
- Date: 2011-07-26 09:04:09 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2011/07/55956
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fsdevel/2011/07/55678/t.md

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:21:06AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Well, not 'last' contention point, as we still hit remove_inode_hash(),

There should be no ned to put pipe or anon inodes on the inode hash.
Probably sockets don't need it either, but I'd need to look at it in
detail.

> inode_wb_list_del()

The should never be on the wb list either, doing an unlocked check for
actually beeing on the list before taking the lock should help you.

> inode_lru_list_del(),

No real need to keep inodes in the LRU if we only allocate them using
new_inode but never look them up either.  You might want to try setting
.drop_inode to generic_delete_inode for these.

> +struct inode *__new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
> +{
> +	struct inode *inode = alloc_inode(sb);
> +
> +	if (inode) {
> +		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
> +		inode->i_state = 0;
> +		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
> +		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_sb_list);
> +	}
> +	return inode;
> +}

This needs a much better name like new_inode_pseudo, and a kerneldoc 
comment explaining when it is safe to use, and the consequences, which
appear to me:

 - fs may never be unmount
 - quotas can't work on the filesystem
 - writeback can't work on the filesystem

> @@ -814,13 +829,9 @@ struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>  
>  	spin_lock_prefetch(&inode_sb_list_lock);
>  
> -	inode = alloc_inode(sb);
> -	if (inode) {
> -		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
> -		inode->i_state = 0;
> -		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
> -		inode_sb_list_add(inode);
> -	}
> +	inode = __new_inode(sb);
> +	if (inode)
> +			inode_sb_list_add(inode);

bad indentation.

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