linux/fs/kernfs
Radu Rendec 03c0a9208b kernfs: Improve kernfs_notify() poll notification latency
kernfs_notify() does two notifications: poll and fsnotify. Originally,
both notifications were done from scheduled work context and all that
kernfs_notify() did was schedule the work.

This patch simply moves the poll notification from the scheduled work
handler to kernfs_notify(). The fsnotify notification still needs to be
done from scheduled work context because it can sleep (it needs to lock
a mutex).

If the poll notification is time critical (the notified thread needs to
wake as quickly as possible), it's better to do it from kernfs_notify()
directly. One example is calling sysfs_notify_dirent() from a hardware
interrupt handler to wake up a thread and handle the interrupt in user
space.

Signed-off-by: Radu Rendec <radu.rendec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-11-27 11:59:33 +01:00
..
Kconfig kernfs: add CONFIG_KERNFS 2014-02-07 16:08:57 -08:00
Makefile
dir.c kernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gid 2018-07-20 23:44:35 -07:00
file.c kernfs: Improve kernfs_notify() poll notification latency 2018-11-27 11:59:33 +01:00
inode.c kernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gid 2018-07-20 23:44:35 -07:00
kernfs-internal.h kernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gid 2018-07-20 23:44:35 -07:00
mount.c mm: zero-seek shrinkers 2018-10-26 16:26:33 -07:00
symlink.c kernfs: Fix range checks in kernfs_get_target_path 2018-09-16 22:38:57 +02:00