From efaee192063a54749c56b7383803e16fe553630e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:20:54 -0800 Subject: async: make the final inode deletion an asynchronous event this makes "rm -rf" on a (names cached) kernel tree go from 11.6 to 8.6 seconds on an ext3 filesystem Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven --- fs/super.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/super.c') diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index ddba069d7a99..cb20744ec789 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include "internal.h" @@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type) INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&s->s_anon); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inodes); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_dentry_lru); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_async_list); init_rwsem(&s->s_umount); mutex_init(&s->s_lock); lockdep_set_class(&s->s_umount, &type->s_umount_key); @@ -289,11 +291,18 @@ void generic_shutdown_super(struct super_block *sb) { const struct super_operations *sop = sb->s_op; + if (sb->s_root) { shrink_dcache_for_umount(sb); fsync_super(sb); lock_super(sb); sb->s_flags &= ~MS_ACTIVE; + + /* + * wait for asynchronous fs operations to finish before going further + */ + async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list); + /* bad name - it should be evict_inodes() */ invalidate_inodes(sb); lock_kernel(); @@ -449,6 +458,7 @@ void sync_filesystems(int wait) if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) continue; sb->s_need_sync_fs = 1; + async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list); } restart: -- cgit v1.2.1