kernel_optimize_test/security/selinux
Eric Dumazet 5160ee6fc8 [PATCH] shrink dentry struct
Some long time ago, dentry struct was carefully tuned so that on 32 bits
UP, sizeof(struct dentry) was exactly 128, ie a power of 2, and a multiple
of memory cache lines.

Then RCU was added and dentry struct enlarged by two pointers, with nice
results for SMP, but not so good on UP, because breaking the above tuning
(128 + 8 = 136 bytes)

This patch reverts this unwanted side effect, by using an union (d_u),
where d_rcu and d_child are placed so that these two fields can share their
memory needs.

At the time d_free() is called (and d_rcu is really used), d_child is known
to be empty and not touched by the dentry freeing.

Lockless lookups only access d_name, d_parent, d_lock, d_op, d_flags (so
the previous content of d_child is not needed if said dentry was unhashed
but still accessed by a CPU because of RCU constraints)

As dentry cache easily contains millions of entries, a size reduction is
worth the extra complexity of the ugly C union.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:58 -08:00
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include [LSM-IPSec]: Corrections to LSM-IPSec Nethooks 2006-01-06 13:22:39 -08:00
ss [PATCH] selinux: more ARRAY_SIZE cleanups 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
avc.c Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/audit-2.6 2005-09-13 09:47:30 -07:00
hooks.c [PATCH] rcu file: use atomic primitives 2006-01-08 20:13:48 -08:00
Kconfig Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile [LSM-IPSec]: Per-packet access control. 2006-01-03 13:10:25 -08:00
netif.c [PATCH] SELinux: convert to kzalloc 2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
netlink.c [NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_create 2005-08-29 16:01:11 -07:00
nlmsgtab.c [SELINUX]: Update for tcp_diag rename to inet_diag. 2005-08-29 16:01:15 -07:00
selinuxfs.c [PATCH] shrink dentry struct 2006-01-08 20:13:58 -08:00
xfrm.c [XFRM]: Fix sparse warning. 2006-01-07 12:57:27 -08:00