[PATCH] evm: stop avoidably reading i_writecount in evm_file_release
Mimi Zohar
zohar at linux.ibm.com
Thu Oct 10 03:00:00 UTC 2024
On Tue, 2024-08-06 at 15:36 +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> The EVM_NEW_FILE flag is unset if the file already existed at the time
> of open and this can be checked without looking at i_writecount.
>
> Not accessing it reduces traffic on the cacheline during parallel open
> of the same file and drop the evm_file_release routine from second place
> to bottom of the profile.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik at gmail.com>
Sorry for the delay. It's now queued in next-integrity.
thanks,
Mimi
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