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quota: improve inode list scanning in add_dquot_ref()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:37:36 +0000 (01:37 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:41:07 +0000 (10:41 -0800)
commit941d2380e979dfefb6c824452e9f42be3ef948ee
tree4aad1ad817fb2043b8191ef77ec96845b9c24313
parentbed9759b2e6bd938097389f6bd2ac8d622fa3884
quota: improve inode list scanning in add_dquot_ref()

We restarted scan of sb->s_inodes list whenever we had to drop inode_lock
in add_dquot_ref().  This leads to overall quadratic running time and thus
add_dquot_ref() can take several minutes when called on a life filesystem.
We fix the problem by using the fact that inode cannot be removed from
s_inodes list while we hold a reference to it and thus we can safely
restart the scan if we don't drop the reference.  Here we use the fact that
inodes freshly added to s_inodes list are already guaranteed to have quotas
properly initialized and the ordering of inodes on s_inodes list does not
change so we cannot skip any inode.

Thanks goes to Nick <gentuu@gmail.com> for analyzing the problem and
testing the fix.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: iput(NULL) is legal]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Nick <gentuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/dquot.c