Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750774AbWBXHRT (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:17:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750777AbWBXHRT (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:17:19 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:52697 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750774AbWBXHRT (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:17:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:16:21 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Nick Piggin Cc: john@johnmccutchan.com, holt@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rml@novell.com, arnd@arndb.de, hch@lst.de, dipankar@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: udevd is killing file write performance. Message-Id: <20060223231621.0f5d5b8a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <43FEB0BF.6080403@yahoo.com.au> References: <20060222134250.GE20786@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> <1140626903.13461.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060222175030.GB30556@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> <1140648776.1729.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060222151223.5c9061fd.akpm@osdl.org> <1140651662.2985.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060223161425.4388540e.akpm@osdl.org> <20060224054724.GA8593@johnmccutchan.com> <20060223220053.2f7a977e.akpm@osdl.org> <43FEB0BF.6080403@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 18 Nick Piggin 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/