Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:16:21 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: udevd is killing file write performance.
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Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> @@ -538,7 +579,7 @@ void inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(s
>   	struct dentry *parent;
>   	struct inode *inode;
>   
>  -	if (!atomic_read (&inotify_watches))
>  +	if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED))

Yeah, I think that would work.  One would need to wire up d_move() also -
for when a file is moved from a watched to non-watched directory and
vice-versa.

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