fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused The nr_dentry stat is a globally touched cacheline and atomic operation twice over the lifetime of a dentry. It is used for the benfit of userspace only. Turn it into a per-cpu counter and always decrement it in d_free instead of doing various batching operations to reduce lock hold times in the callers. Based on an earlier patch from Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 99a510c..8b77ff5 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1377,7 +1377,7 @@ .data = &dentry_stat, .maxlen = 6*sizeof(int), .mode = 0444, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = proc_nr_dentry, }, { .procname = "overflowuid",