ext4: optimize orphan_list handling for ext4_setattr
Surprisingly chown() on ext4 is not SMP scalable operation. Due to unconditional orphan_del(NULL, inode) in ext4_setattr() result in significant performance overhead because of global orphan mutex, especially in no-journal mode (where orphan_add() is noop). It is possible to skip explicit orphan_del if possible. Results of fchown() micro-benchmark in no-journal mode while (1) { iteration++; fchown(fd, uid, gid); fchown(fd, uid + 1, gid + 1) } measured: iterations per millisecond | nr_tasks | w/o patch | with patch | | 1 | 142 | 185 | | 4 | 109 | 642 | Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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