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Subject[PATCH] d_prune dentry_operation
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Ceph goes to great lengths to keep its client-side cache coherent, 
allowing many operations (lookup, creations, readdir) to be performed
without any server interaction when the client has the proper leases.

Sadly, this functionality is all currently disabled because we cannot
handle races between dcache pruning and any of those activities with the
current VFS interface.

This patch adds a d_prune hook that allows the filesystem to be informed
before a dentry is removed from the cache. Merging this for 3.2-rc1
will make Ceph users and their metadata-intensive workload very happy.

If anybody has any issues at all with this, please tell me, so I can
make my case or revise my approach.

Thanks!
sage


Sage Weil (1):
vfs: add d_prune dentry operation

Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 1 +
fs/dcache.c | 8 ++++++++
include/linux/dcache.h | 3 +++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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1.7.2.5



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