fuse: implement NFS-like readdirplus support
This patch implements readdirplus support in FUSE, similar to NFS.
The payload returned in the readdirplus call contains
'fuse_entry_out' structure thereby providing all the necessary inputs
for 'faking' a lookup() operation on the spot.
If the dentry and inode already existed (for e.g. in a re-run of ls -l)
then just the inode attributes timeout and dentry timeout are refreshed.
With a simple client->network->server implementation of a FUSE based
filesystem, the following performance observations were made:
Test: Performing a filesystem crawl over 20,000 files with
sh# time ls -lR /mnt
Without readdirplus:
Run 1: 18.1s
Run 2: 16.0s
Run 3: 16.2s
With readdirplus:
Run 1: 4.1s
Run 2: 3.8s
Run 3: 3.8s
The performance improvement is significant as it avoided 20,000 upcalls
calls (lookup). Cache consistency is no worse than what already is.
Signed-off-by: Anand V. Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c
index e83351a..05c3eec2 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
@@ -491,6 +491,25 @@
fuse_request_send_nowait_locked(fc, req);
}
+void fuse_force_forget(struct file *file, u64 nodeid)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+ struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn(inode);
+ struct fuse_req *req;
+ struct fuse_forget_in inarg;
+
+ memset(&inarg, 0, sizeof(inarg));
+ inarg.nlookup = 1;
+ req = fuse_get_req_nofail(fc, file);
+ req->in.h.opcode = FUSE_FORGET;
+ req->in.h.nodeid = nodeid;
+ req->in.numargs = 1;
+ req->in.args[0].size = sizeof(inarg);
+ req->in.args[0].value = &inarg;
+ req->isreply = 0;
+ fuse_request_send_nowait(fc, req);
+}
+
/*
* Lock the request. Up to the next unlock_request() there mustn't be
* anything that could cause a page-fault. If the request was already