linux/include
Trond Myklebust d69ee9b855 NFS: Adapt readdirplus to application usage patterns
While the use of READDIRPLUS is significantly more efficient than
READDIR followed by many LOOKUP calls, it is still less efficient
than just READDIR if the attributes are not required.

This patch tracks when lookups are attempted on the directory,
and uses that information to selectively disable READDIRPLUS
on that directory.
The first 'readdir' call is always served using READDIRPLUS.
Subsequent calls only use READDIRPLUS if there was a successful
lookup or revalidation on a child in the mean time.

Credit for the original idea should go to Neil Brown. See:
      http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg19996.html
However, the implementation in this patch differs from Neil's
in that it focuses on tracking lookups rather than calls to
stat().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
History 2012-05-01 19:16:43 -04:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-03-30 16:45:39 -07:00
asm-generic asm-generic: Allow overriding clock_t and add attributes to siginfo_t 2012-04-23 16:29:18 -07:00
crypto crypto: user - Fix lookup of algorithms with IV generator 2012-03-29 19:52:47 +08:00
drm Merge branch 'exynos-drm-fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/kmpark/linux-samsung into drm-intel-fixes 2012-04-12 17:42:01 +01:00
keys keys: add a "logon" key type 2012-01-17 22:39:40 -06:00
linux NFS: Adapt readdirplus to application usage patterns 2012-05-01 19:16:43 -04:00
math-emu math-emu: correct test for downshifting fraction in _FP_FROM_INT() 2010-07-20 18:45:14 -07:00
media The following text was taken from the original review request: 2012-03-24 10:41:37 -07:00
misc [media] altera-stapl: it is time to move out from staging 2011-09-23 15:00:57 -03:00
mtd mtd: document that MEMWRITE ioctl is NAND-specific 2012-01-09 18:18:36 +00:00
net net/sock.h: fix sk_peek_off kernel-doc warning 2012-04-17 22:32:00 -04:00
pcmcia pcmcia: add PCMCIA_DEVICE_MANF_CARD_PROD_ID3 2011-08-08 16:04:11 -04:00
rdma Merge branches 'cma', 'cxgb3', 'cxgb4', 'ehca', 'iser', 'mad', 'nes', 'qib', 'srp' and 'srpt' into for-next 2012-03-19 09:50:33 -07:00
rxrpc atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
scsi SCSI: Fix error handling when no ULD is attached 2012-04-15 11:08:53 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda - hide HDMI/ELD printks unless snd.debug=2 2012-04-10 14:53:55 +02:00
target target: Use array_zalloc for device_list 2012-03-15 19:15:51 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-04-04 10:04:42 -07:00
video Merge branch 'platforms' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2012-03-27 18:17:02 -07:00
xen Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-04-04 17:13:43 -07:00
Kbuild [SCSI] FC Pass Thru support 2009-06-12 14:20:05 -05:00