Posix: Optimize posix code to improve file creation

Problem: Before executing a fop in POSIX xlator it builds an internal
         path based on GFID.To validate the path it call's (l)stat
         system call and while .glusterfs is heavily loaded kernel takes
         time to lookup inode and due to that performance drops

Solution: In this patch we followed two ways to improve the performance.
          1) Keep open fd specific to first level directory(gfid[0])
             in .glusterfs, it would force to kernel keep the inodes
             from all those files in cache. In case of memory pressure
             kernel won't uncache first level inodes. We need to open
             256 fd's per brick to access the entry faster.
          2) Use at based call's to access relative path to reduce
             path based lookup time.

Note: To verify the patch we have executed kernel untar 100 times on 6
      different clients after enabling metadata group-cache and some
      other option.We were getting more than 20 percent improvement in
      kenel untar after applying the patch.

Credits: Xavi Hernandez <xhernandez@redhat.com>
Change-Id: I1643e6b01ed669b2bb148d02f4e6a8e08da45343
updates: #891
Signed-off-by: Mohit Agrawal <moagrawal@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libglusterfs/src/glusterfs/syscall.h b/libglusterfs/src/glusterfs/syscall.h
index 6b33c141a5e..91e921aea50 100644
--- a/libglusterfs/src/glusterfs/syscall.h
+++ b/libglusterfs/src/glusterfs/syscall.h
@@ -96,18 +96,27 @@ int
 sys_unlink(const char *pathname);
 
 int
+sys_unlinkat(int dfd, const char *pathname);
+
+int
 sys_rmdir(const char *pathname);
 
 int
 sys_symlink(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);
 
 int
+sys_symlinkat(const char *oldpath, int dirfd, const char *newpath);
+
+int
 sys_rename(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);
 
 int
 sys_link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);
 
 int
+sys_linkat(int oldfd, const char *oldpath, int newfd, const char *newpath);
+
+int
 sys_chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode);
 
 int