Nick Piggin c28cc36469 fs: fs_struct use seqlock ...

Use a seqlock in the fs_struct to enable us to take an atomic copy of the
complete cwd and root paths. Use this in the RCU lookup path to avoid a
thread-shared spinlock in RCU lookup operations.

Multi-threaded apps may now perform path lookups with scalability matching
multi-process apps. Operations such as stat(2) become very scalable for
multi-threaded workload.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

2011-01-07 17:50:27 +11:00

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