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    fsnotify: mount point listeners list and global mask · 7131485a
    Eric Paris authored
    currently all of the notification systems implemented select which inodes
    they care about and receive messages only about those inodes (or the
    children of those inodes.)  This patch begins to flesh out fsnotify support
    for the concept of listeners that want to hear notification for an inode
    accessed below a given monut point.  This patch implements a second list
    of fsnotify groups to hold these types of groups and a second global mask
    to hold the events of interest for this type of group.
    
    The reason we want a second group list and mask is because the inode based
    notification should_send_event support which makes each group look for a mark
    on the given inode.  With one nfsmount listener that means that every group would
    have to take the inode->i_lock, look for their mark, not find one, and return
    for every operation.   By seperating vfsmount from inode listeners only when
    there is a inode listener will the inode groups have to look for their
    mark and take the inode lock.  vfsmount listeners will have to grab the lock and
    look for a mark but there should be fewer of them, and one vfsmount listener
    won't cause the i_lock to be grabbed and released for every fsnotify group
    on every io operation.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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