Re: udevd is killing file write performance.

[Nick Piggin]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > @@ -538,7 +579,7 @@ void inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(s
> >  	struct dentry *parent;
> >  	struct inode *inode;
> >  
> > -	if (!atomic_read (&inotify_watches))
> > +	if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED))
>
>
> Yeah, I think that would work.  One would need to wire up d_move() also -
> for when a file is moved from a watched to non-watched directory and
> vice-versa.

Oh yeah of course, good catch. Are there any other cases missing?

... I'll let the others on this thread digest before spitting out
another patch.

John or Robert, is there some kind of inotify test suite around?

Thanks,

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