[PATCH v2 7/8] xfsdump: path lookup cache must be thread specific

Alex Elder aelder at sgi.com
Mon Nov 7 20:03:27 CST 2011


On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:58 -0600, Bill Kendall wrote:
> The xfsrestore path lookup routine (maps an ino + generation number to a
> pathname) contains a cache for fast lookups of consecutive files in the
> same parent directory. This cache either needs to be protected by a lock
> or a cache is needed per thread. I took the latter approach since it
> doesn't add lock contention and it increases the cache hit rate (it's
> relatively unlikely that each stream is processing files in the same
> directory).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bill Kendall <wkendall at sgi.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

So you're fixing a bug, and making it work
better at the same time, by simply adding one
keyword.

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>





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