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As the size of a directory increases item creation slows down. Optimizing access to s_children removes this bottleneck. dirents are already pinned into the cache, there is no need to scan the s_children list looking for duplicate Items. The configfs_dirent_exists check is moved to a location where it is called only during subsystem initialization. d_lookup will only need to call configfs_lookup in the case where the item in question is not pinned to dcache. The only items not pinned to dcache are attributes. These are placed at the front of the s_children list, whilst pinned items are inserted at the back. configfs_lookup stops scanning when it encounters the first pinned entry in s_children. The assumption of the above optimizations is that there will be few attributes, but potentially many Items in a given directory. Signed-off-by: Seamus Connor <sconnor@purestorage.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.