fs: add a DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP flag for d_flags

Btrfs (and I'd venture most other fs's) stores its indexes in nice disk order
for readdir, but unfortunately in the case of anything that stats the files in
order that readdir spits back (like oh say ls) that means we still have to do
the normal lookup of the file, which means looking up our other index and then
looking up the inode.  What I want is a way to create dummy dentries when we
find them in readdir so that when ls or anything else subsequently does a
stat(), we already have the location information in the dentry and can go
straight to the inode itself.  The lookup stuff just assumes that if it finds a
dentry it is done, it doesn't perform a lookup.  So add a DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP
flag so that the lookup code knows it still needs to run i_op->lookup() on the
parent to get the inode for the dentry.  I have tested this with btrfs and I
went from something that looks like this

http://people.redhat.com/jwhiter/ls-noreada.png

To this

http://people.redhat.com/jwhiter/ls-good.png

Thats a savings of 1300 seconds, or 22 minutes.  That is a significant savings.
Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 19d90a5..5fa5bd3 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
 #define DCACHE_MOUNTED		0x10000	/* is a mountpoint */
 #define DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT	0x20000	/* handle automount on this dir */
 #define DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT	0x40000	/* manage transit from this dirent */
+#define DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP	0x80000 /* dentry requires i_op->lookup */
 #define DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY \
 	(DCACHE_MOUNTED|DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT|DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT)
 
@@ -416,6 +417,12 @@ static inline bool d_mountpoint(struct dentry *dentry)
 	return dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_MOUNTED;
 }
 
+static inline bool d_need_lookup(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	return dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP;
+}
+
+extern void d_clear_need_lookup(struct dentry *dentry);
 extern struct dentry *lookup_create(struct nameidata *nd, int is_dir);
 
 extern int sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure;