We only need it when mount in question was sending events downstream (then recepients need to switch to new master) or the mount is being turned into slave (then we need a new master for it). That wouldn't be a big deal, except that it causes quite a bit of work when umount_tree() is taking a large peer group out. Adding a trivial "don't bother calling propagation_source() unless we are going to use its results" logics improves the things quite a bit. We are still doing unnecessary work on bulk removals from propagation graph, but the full solution for that will have to wait for the next merge window. Fixes: 955336e204ab "do_make_slave(): choose new master sanely" Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/pnode.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/pnode.c b/fs/pnode.c index 1c789f88b3d2..6f7d02f3fa98 100644 --- a/fs/pnode.c +++ b/fs/pnode.c @@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ void change_mnt_propagation(struct mount *mnt, int type) return; } if (IS_MNT_SHARED(mnt)) { - m = propagation_source(mnt); + if (type == MS_SLAVE || !hlist_empty(&mnt->mnt_slave_list)) + m = propagation_source(mnt); if (list_empty(&mnt->mnt_share)) { mnt_release_group_id(mnt); } else { -- 2.47.2