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Re: XFS: Fine-tuning for checks before the function call "xfs_qm_dqrele"?

From SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: XFS: Fine-tuning for checks before the function call "xfs_qm_dqrele"?
Date 2015-07-01 10:00 +0200
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> xfs_dqrele_inode() gets called on every inode in the inode cache,
> and this change results in a cacheline in every inode being dirtied
> even if they don't have dquots attached. Given the inode cache can
> hold tens to hundreds of millions of inodes on large machines, we
> don't want to dirty any cachelines we don't need to while walking
> the inode cache and releasing dquots...

Would it make sense to annotate checks before such function calls
as "LIKELY"?

Regards,
Markus
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Re: [PATCH] XFS: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call  "xfs_qm_dqrele" Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-06-29 23:50 +0200
  Re: XFS: Fine-tuning for checks before the function call "xfs_qm_dqrele"? SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2015-07-01 10:00 +0200
    Re: XFS: Fine-tuning for checks before the function call  "xfs_qm_dqrele"? Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-07-02 02:30 +0200

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