Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph updates for 5.20-rc1

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 02:52:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 2:38 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Exporting the functionality?  Sure, no problem.  Uninlining that one...
> > I suspect that it's OK, but I'd like to see profiling data; it's not
> > as if it would be hard to return to having it inlined, obviously.
> 
> The only case where I think it might matter is in __d_lookup(), and
> it's probably not measurable.
> 
> Yes, __d_lookup() does matter, but it only matters once you've fallen
> out of RCU mode, and at that point the cost of the function call is
> likely in the noise.
> 
> I don't particularly like how it's inside that dentry hash chain loop,
> but realistically by then we've already done a function call for the
> dentry lock spinlock, so that loop already has to deal with it.

FWIW, I wonder if we should do
	if (READ_ONCE(dentry->d_parent) != parent)
		continue;
before grabbing ->d_lock (and repeat the check after grabbing it,
of course).  It's OK from correctness POV - we are OK with false
negatives from __d_lookup() if concurrent rename happens.  And
it just might be a sufficiently large performance win...