afs: Keep track of invalid-before version for dentry coherency

Each afs dentry is tagged with the version that the parent directory was at
last time it was validated and, currently, if this differs, the directory
is scanned and the dentry is refreshed.

However, this leads to an excessive amount of revalidation on directories
that get modified on the client without conflict with another client.  We
know there's no conflict because the parent directory's data version number
got incremented by exactly 1 on any create, mkdir, unlink, etc., therefore
we can trust the current state of the unaffected dentries when we perform a
local directory modification.

Optimise by keeping track of the last version of the parent directory that
was changed outside of the client in the parent directory's vnode and using
that to validate the dentries rather than the current version.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index 538ca18efe0d..08b499504f63 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ static int afs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 	struct dentry *parent;
 	struct inode *inode;
 	struct key *key;
-	void *dir_version;
+	long dir_version, de_version;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
@@ -1059,9 +1059,19 @@ static int afs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 		goto out_bad_parent;
 	}
 
-	dir_version = (void *) (unsigned long) dir->status.data_version;
-	if (dentry->d_fsdata == dir_version)
-		goto out_valid; /* the dir contents are unchanged */
+	/* We only need to invalidate a dentry if the server's copy changed
+	 * behind our back.  If we made the change, it's no problem.  Note that
+	 * on a 32-bit system, we only have 32 bits in the dentry to store the
+	 * version.
+	 */
+	dir_version = (long)dir->status.data_version;
+	de_version = (long)dentry->d_fsdata;
+	if (de_version == dir_version)
+		goto out_valid;
+
+	dir_version = (long)dir->invalid_before;
+	if (de_version - dir_version >= 0)
+		goto out_valid;
 
 	_debug("dir modified");
 	afs_stat_v(dir, n_reval);
@@ -1120,7 +1130,7 @@ static int afs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 	}
 
 out_valid:
-	dentry->d_fsdata = dir_version;
+	dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)dir_version;
 	dput(parent);
 	key_put(key);
 	_leave(" = 1 [valid]");