fuse: implement NFS-like readdirplus support

This patch implements readdirplus support in FUSE, similar to NFS.
The payload returned in the readdirplus call contains
'fuse_entry_out' structure thereby providing all the necessary inputs
for 'faking' a lookup() operation on the spot.

If the dentry and inode already existed (for e.g. in a re-run of ls -l)
then just the inode attributes timeout and dentry timeout are refreshed.

With a simple client->network->server implementation of a FUSE based
filesystem, the following performance observations were made:

Test: Performing a filesystem crawl over 20,000 files with

sh# time ls -lR /mnt

Without readdirplus:
Run 1: 18.1s
Run 2: 16.0s
Run 3: 16.2s

With readdirplus:
Run 1: 4.1s
Run 2: 3.8s
Run 3: 3.8s

The performance improvement is significant as it avoided 20,000 upcalls
calls (lookup). Cache consistency is no worse than what already is.

Signed-off-by: Anand V. Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c
index e83351aa5bad..05c3eec298f2 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
@@ -491,6 +491,25 @@ void fuse_request_send_background_locked(struct fuse_conn *fc,
 	fuse_request_send_nowait_locked(fc, req);
 }
 
+void fuse_force_forget(struct file *file, u64 nodeid)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+	struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn(inode);
+	struct fuse_req *req;
+	struct fuse_forget_in inarg;
+
+	memset(&inarg, 0, sizeof(inarg));
+	inarg.nlookup = 1;
+	req = fuse_get_req_nofail(fc, file);
+	req->in.h.opcode = FUSE_FORGET;
+	req->in.h.nodeid = nodeid;
+	req->in.numargs = 1;
+	req->in.args[0].size = sizeof(inarg);
+	req->in.args[0].value = &inarg;
+	req->isreply = 0;
+	fuse_request_send_nowait(fc, req);
+}
+
 /*
  * Lock the request.  Up to the next unlock_request() there mustn't be
  * anything that could cause a page-fault.  If the request was already