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Amir Goldstein 8b58924ad5 ovl: lookup in inode cache first when decoding lower file handle
When decoding a lower file handle, we need to check if lower file was
copied up and indexed and if it has a whiteout index, we need to check
if this is an unlinked but open non-dir before returning -ESTALE.

To find out if this is an unlinked but open non-dir we need to lookup
an overlay inode in inode cache by lower inode and that requires decoding
the lower file handle before looking in inode cache.

Before this change, if the lower inode turned out to be a directory, we
may have paid an expensive cost to reconnect that lower directory for
nothing.

After this change, we start by decoding a disconnected lower dentry and
using the lower inode for looking up an overlay inode in inode cache.
If we find overlay inode and dentry in cache, we avoid the index lookup
overhead. If we don't find an overlay inode and dentry in cache, then we
only need to decode a connected lower dentry in case the lower dentry is
a non-indexed directory.

The xfstests group overlay/exportfs tests decoding overlayfs file
handles after drop_caches with different states of the file at encode
and decode time. Overall the tests in the group call ovl_lower_fh_to_d()
89 times to decode a lower file handle.

Before this change, the tests called ovl_get_index_fh() 75 times and
reconnect_one() 61 times.
After this change, the tests call ovl_get_index_fh() 70 times and
reconnect_one() 59 times. The 2 cases where reconnect_one() was avoided
are cases where a non-upper directory file handle was encoded, then the
directory removed and then file handle was decoded.

To demonstrate the affect on decoding file handles with hot inode/dentry
cache, the drop_caches call in the tests was disabled. Without
drop_caches, there are no reconnect_one() calls at all before or after
the change. Before the change, there are 75 calls to ovl_get_index_fh(),
exactly as the case with drop_caches. After the change, there are only
10 calls to ovl_get_index_fh().

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-04-12 12:04:49 +02:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation Staging/IIO fixes for 4.16-rc7 2018-03-23 11:11:32 -07:00
drivers dmaengine fixes for v4.16-rc7 2018-03-25 07:45:10 -10:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
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include Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:18:31 -10:00
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ipc Revert "mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount" 2018-03-24 19:34:23 -05:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:34:50 -10:00
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samples - do not build samples when cross compiling (Michal Hocko) 2018-02-27 10:39:29 -08:00
scripts kbuild: Handle builtin dtb file names containing hyphens 2018-03-09 01:14:38 +09:00
security integrity/security: fix digsig.c build error with header file 2018-02-22 20:09:08 -08:00
sound ALSA: aloop: Fix access to not-yet-ready substream via cable 2018-03-22 10:40:27 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
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