From 0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Love Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:06:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] inotify inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love Cc: John McCutchan Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sysctl.h | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sysctl.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index 5b5f434ac9a0..ce19a2aa0b21 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ enum CTL_DEV=7, /* Devices */ CTL_BUS=8, /* Busses */ CTL_ABI=9, /* Binary emulation */ - CTL_CPU=10 /* CPU stuff (speed scaling, etc) */ + CTL_CPU=10, /* CPU stuff (speed scaling, etc) */ + CTL_INOTIFY=11 /* Inotify */ }; /* CTL_BUS names: */ @@ -70,6 +71,14 @@ enum CTL_BUS_ISA=1 /* ISA */ }; +/* CTL_INOTIFY names: */ +enum +{ + INOTIFY_MAX_USER_DEVICES=1, /* max number of inotify device instances per user */ + INOTIFY_MAX_USER_WATCHES=2, /* max number of inotify watches per user */ + INOTIFY_MAX_QUEUED_EVENTS=3 /* Max number of queued events per inotify device instance */ +}; + /* CTL_KERN names: */ enum { -- cgit v1.2.3 From 0399cb08c54708db231d616f106f64d920e0b723 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Love Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:38:18 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] inotify: move sysctl This moves the inotify sysctl knobs to "/proc/sys/fs/inotify" from "/proc/sys/fs". Also some related cleanup. Signed-off-by: Robert Love Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sysctl.h | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sysctl.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index ce19a2aa0b21..bfbbe94b297d 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ enum CTL_DEV=7, /* Devices */ CTL_BUS=8, /* Busses */ CTL_ABI=9, /* Binary emulation */ - CTL_CPU=10, /* CPU stuff (speed scaling, etc) */ - CTL_INOTIFY=11 /* Inotify */ + CTL_CPU=10 /* CPU stuff (speed scaling, etc) */ }; /* CTL_BUS names: */ @@ -71,12 +70,12 @@ enum CTL_BUS_ISA=1 /* ISA */ }; -/* CTL_INOTIFY names: */ +/* /proc/sys/fs/inotify/ */ enum { - INOTIFY_MAX_USER_DEVICES=1, /* max number of inotify device instances per user */ - INOTIFY_MAX_USER_WATCHES=2, /* max number of inotify watches per user */ - INOTIFY_MAX_QUEUED_EVENTS=3 /* Max number of queued events per inotify device instance */ + INOTIFY_MAX_USER_INSTANCES=1, /* max instances per user */ + INOTIFY_MAX_USER_WATCHES=2, /* max watches per user */ + INOTIFY_MAX_QUEUED_EVENTS=3 /* max queued events per instance */ }; /* CTL_KERN names: */ @@ -685,6 +684,7 @@ enum FS_XFS=17, /* struct: control xfs parameters */ FS_AIO_NR=18, /* current system-wide number of aio requests */ FS_AIO_MAX_NR=19, /* system-wide maximum number of aio requests */ + FS_INOTIFY=20, /* inotify submenu */ }; /* /proc/sys/fs/quota/ */ -- cgit v1.2.3 From 951f22d5b1f0eaae35dafc669e3774a0c2084d10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwidefsky Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:44:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] s390: spin lock retry Split spin lock and r/w lock implementation into a single try which is done inline and an out of line function that repeatedly tries to get the lock before doing the cpu_relax(). Add a system control to set the number of retries before a cpu is yielded. The reason for the spin lock retry is that the diagnose 0x44 that is used to give up the virtual cpu is quite expensive. For spin locks that are held only for a short period of time the costs of the diagnoses outweights the savings for spin locks that are held for a longer timer. The default retry count is 1000. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sysctl.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sysctl.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index bfbbe94b297d..e82be96d4906 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ enum KERN_BOOTLOADER_TYPE=67, /* int: boot loader type */ KERN_RANDOMIZE=68, /* int: randomize virtual address space */ KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE=69, /* int: behaviour of dumps for setuid core */ + KERN_SPIN_RETRY=70, /* int: number of spinlock retries */ }; -- cgit v1.2.3