diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 6068c25..3818d6a 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@
 static unsigned int d_hash_mask __read_mostly;
 static unsigned int d_hash_shift __read_mostly;
 static struct hlist_head *dentry_hashtable __read_mostly;
-static LIST_HEAD(dentry_unused);
 
 /* Statistics gathering. */
 struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat = {
@@ -96,14 +95,6 @@
 		call_rcu(&dentry->d_u.d_rcu, d_callback);
 }
 
-static void dentry_lru_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
-{
-	if (!list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) {
-		list_del_init(&dentry->d_lru);
-		dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
-	}
-}
-
 /*
  * Release the dentry's inode, using the filesystem
  * d_iput() operation if defined.
@@ -130,6 +121,41 @@
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * dentry_lru_(add|add_tail|del|del_init) must be called with dcache_lock held.
+ */
+static void dentry_lru_add(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	list_add(&dentry->d_lru, &dentry->d_sb->s_dentry_lru);
+	dentry->d_sb->s_nr_dentry_unused++;
+	dentry_stat.nr_unused++;
+}
+
+static void dentry_lru_add_tail(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	list_add_tail(&dentry->d_lru, &dentry->d_sb->s_dentry_lru);
+	dentry->d_sb->s_nr_dentry_unused++;
+	dentry_stat.nr_unused++;
+}
+
+static void dentry_lru_del(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	if (!list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) {
+		list_del(&dentry->d_lru);
+		dentry->d_sb->s_nr_dentry_unused--;
+		dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
+	}
+}
+
+static void dentry_lru_del_init(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	if (likely(!list_empty(&dentry->d_lru))) {
+		list_del_init(&dentry->d_lru);
+		dentry->d_sb->s_nr_dentry_unused--;
+		dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * d_kill - kill dentry and return parent
  * @dentry: dentry to kill
@@ -212,8 +238,7 @@
 		goto kill_it;
   	if (list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) {
   		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED;
-  		list_add(&dentry->d_lru, &dentry_unused);
-  		dentry_stat.nr_unused++;
+		dentry_lru_add(dentry);
   	}
  	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
@@ -222,7 +247,8 @@
 unhash_it:
 	__d_drop(dentry);
 kill_it:
-	dentry_lru_remove(dentry);
+	/* if dentry was on the d_lru list delete it from there */
+	dentry_lru_del(dentry);
 	dentry = d_kill(dentry);
 	if (dentry)
 		goto repeat;
@@ -290,7 +316,7 @@
 static inline struct dentry * __dget_locked(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	atomic_inc(&dentry->d_count);
-	dentry_lru_remove(dentry);
+	dentry_lru_del_init(dentry);
 	return dentry;
 }
 
@@ -406,132 +432,166 @@
 
 		if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_delete)
 			dentry->d_op->d_delete(dentry);
-		dentry_lru_remove(dentry);
+		dentry_lru_del_init(dentry);
 		__d_drop(dentry);
 		dentry = d_kill(dentry);
 		spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
 	}
 }
 
-/**
- * prune_dcache - shrink the dcache
- * @count: number of entries to try and free
- * @sb: if given, ignore dentries for other superblocks
- *         which are being unmounted.
- *
- * Shrink the dcache. This is done when we need
- * more memory, or simply when we need to unmount
- * something (at which point we need to unuse
- * all dentries).
- *
- * This function may fail to free any resources if
- * all the dentries are in use.
+/*
+ * Shrink the dentry LRU on a given superblock.
+ * @sb   : superblock to shrink dentry LRU.
+ * @count: If count is NULL, we prune all dentries on superblock.
+ * @flags: If flags is non-zero, we need to do special processing based on
+ * which flags are set. This means we don't need to maintain multiple
+ * similar copies of this loop.
  */
- 
-static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb)
+static void __shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int *count, int flags)
 {
+	LIST_HEAD(referenced);
+	LIST_HEAD(tmp);
+	struct dentry *dentry;
+	int cnt = 0;
+
+	BUG_ON(!sb);
+	BUG_ON((flags & DCACHE_REFERENCED) && count == NULL);
 	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
-	for (; count ; count--) {
-		struct dentry *dentry;
-		struct list_head *tmp;
-		struct rw_semaphore *s_umount;
+	if (count != NULL)
+		/* called from prune_dcache() and shrink_dcache_parent() */
+		cnt = *count;
+restart:
+	if (count == NULL)
+		list_splice_init(&sb->s_dentry_lru, &tmp);
+	else {
+		while (!list_empty(&sb->s_dentry_lru)) {
+			dentry = list_entry(sb->s_dentry_lru.prev,
+					struct dentry, d_lru);
+			BUG_ON(dentry->d_sb != sb);
 
-		cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock);
-
-		tmp = dentry_unused.prev;
-		if (sb) {
-			/* Try to find a dentry for this sb, but don't try
-			 * too hard, if they aren't near the tail they will
-			 * be moved down again soon
+			spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+			/*
+			 * If we are honouring the DCACHE_REFERENCED flag and
+			 * the dentry has this flag set, don't free it. Clear
+			 * the flag and put it back on the LRU.
 			 */
-			int skip = count;
-			while (skip && tmp != &dentry_unused &&
-			    list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_lru)->d_sb != sb) {
-				skip--;
-				tmp = tmp->prev;
+			if ((flags & DCACHE_REFERENCED)
+				&& (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_REFERENCED)) {
+				dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_REFERENCED;
+				list_move_tail(&dentry->d_lru, &referenced);
+				spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+			} else {
+				list_move_tail(&dentry->d_lru, &tmp);
+				spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+				cnt--;
+				if (!cnt)
+					break;
 			}
 		}
-		if (tmp == &dentry_unused)
-			break;
-		list_del_init(tmp);
-		prefetch(dentry_unused.prev);
- 		dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
-		dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_lru);
-
- 		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+	}
+	while (!list_empty(&tmp)) {
+		dentry = list_entry(tmp.prev, struct dentry, d_lru);
+		dentry_lru_del_init(dentry);
+		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
 		/*
 		 * We found an inuse dentry which was not removed from
-		 * dentry_unused because of laziness during lookup.  Do not free
-		 * it - just keep it off the dentry_unused list.
+		 * the LRU because of laziness during lookup.  Do not free
+		 * it - just keep it off the LRU list.
 		 */
- 		if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)) {
- 			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+		if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)) {
+			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 			continue;
 		}
-		/* If the dentry was recently referenced, don't free it. */
-		if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_REFERENCED) {
-			dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_REFERENCED;
- 			list_add(&dentry->d_lru, &dentry_unused);
- 			dentry_stat.nr_unused++;
- 			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-			continue;
-		}
-		/*
-		 * If the dentry is not DCACHED_REFERENCED, it is time
-		 * to remove it from the dcache, provided the super block is
-		 * NULL (which means we are trying to reclaim memory)
-		 * or this dentry belongs to the same super block that
-		 * we want to shrink.
-		 */
-		/*
-		 * If this dentry is for "my" filesystem, then I can prune it
-		 * without taking the s_umount lock (I already hold it).
-		 */
-		if (sb && dentry->d_sb == sb) {
-			prune_one_dentry(dentry);
-			continue;
-		}
-		/*
-		 * ...otherwise we need to be sure this filesystem isn't being
-		 * unmounted, otherwise we could race with
-		 * generic_shutdown_super(), and end up holding a reference to
-		 * an inode while the filesystem is unmounted.
-		 * So we try to get s_umount, and make sure s_root isn't NULL.
-		 * (Take a local copy of s_umount to avoid a use-after-free of
-		 * `dentry').
-		 */
-		s_umount = &dentry->d_sb->s_umount;
-		if (down_read_trylock(s_umount)) {
-			if (dentry->d_sb->s_root != NULL) {
-				prune_one_dentry(dentry);
-				up_read(s_umount);
-				continue;
-			}
-			up_read(s_umount);
-		}
-		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-		/*
-		 * Insert dentry at the head of the list as inserting at the
-		 * tail leads to a cycle.
-		 */
- 		list_add(&dentry->d_lru, &dentry_unused);
-		dentry_stat.nr_unused++;
+		prune_one_dentry(dentry);
+		/* dentry->d_lock was dropped in prune_one_dentry() */
+		cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock);
 	}
+	if (count == NULL && !list_empty(&sb->s_dentry_lru))
+		goto restart;
+	if (count != NULL)
+		*count = cnt;
+	if (!list_empty(&referenced))
+		list_splice(&referenced, &sb->s_dentry_lru);
 	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
 }
 
-/*
- * Shrink the dcache for the specified super block.
- * This allows us to unmount a device without disturbing
- * the dcache for the other devices.
+/**
+ * prune_dcache - shrink the dcache
+ * @count: number of entries to try to free
  *
- * This implementation makes just two traversals of the
- * unused list.  On the first pass we move the selected
- * dentries to the most recent end, and on the second
- * pass we free them.  The second pass must restart after
- * each dput(), but since the target dentries are all at
- * the end, it's really just a single traversal.
+ * Shrink the dcache. This is done when we need more memory, or simply when we
+ * need to unmount something (at which point we need to unuse all dentries).
+ *
+ * This function may fail to free any resources if all the dentries are in use.
  */
+static void prune_dcache(int count)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb;
+	int w_count;
+	int unused = dentry_stat.nr_unused;
+	int prune_ratio;
+	int pruned;
+
+	if (unused == 0 || count == 0)
+		return;
+	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
+restart:
+	if (count >= unused)
+		prune_ratio = 1;
+	else
+		prune_ratio = unused / count;
+	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
+	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
+		if (sb->s_nr_dentry_unused == 0)
+			continue;
+		sb->s_count++;
+		/* Now, we reclaim unused dentrins with fairness.
+		 * We reclaim them same percentage from each superblock.
+		 * We calculate number of dentries to scan on this sb
+		 * as follows, but the implementation is arranged to avoid
+		 * overflows:
+		 * number of dentries to scan on this sb =
+		 * count * (number of dentries on this sb /
+		 * number of dentries in the machine)
+		 */
+		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+		if (prune_ratio != 1)
+			w_count = (sb->s_nr_dentry_unused / prune_ratio) + 1;
+		else
+			w_count = sb->s_nr_dentry_unused;
+		pruned = w_count;
+		/*
+		 * We need to be sure this filesystem isn't being unmounted,
+		 * otherwise we could race with generic_shutdown_super(), and
+		 * end up holding a reference to an inode while the filesystem
+		 * is unmounted.  So we try to get s_umount, and make sure
+		 * s_root isn't NULL.
+		 */
+		if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
+			if ((sb->s_root != NULL) &&
+			    (!list_empty(&sb->s_dentry_lru))) {
+				spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+				__shrink_dcache_sb(sb, &w_count,
+						DCACHE_REFERENCED);
+				pruned -= w_count;
+				spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
+			}
+			up_read(&sb->s_umount);
+		}
+		spin_lock(&sb_lock);
+		count -= pruned;
+		/*
+		 * restart only when sb is no longer on the list and
+		 * we have more work to do.
+		 */
+		if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb) && count > 0) {
+			spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+			goto restart;
+		}
+	}
+	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+}
 
 /**
  * shrink_dcache_sb - shrink dcache for a superblock
@@ -541,44 +601,9 @@
  * is used to free the dcache before unmounting a file
  * system
  */
-
 void shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block * sb)
 {
-	struct list_head *tmp, *next;
-	struct dentry *dentry;
-
-	/*
-	 * Pass one ... move the dentries for the specified
-	 * superblock to the most recent end of the unused list.
-	 */
-	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
-	list_for_each_prev_safe(tmp, next, &dentry_unused) {
-		dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_lru);
-		if (dentry->d_sb != sb)
-			continue;
-		list_move_tail(tmp, &dentry_unused);
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Pass two ... free the dentries for this superblock.
-	 */
-repeat:
-	list_for_each_prev_safe(tmp, next, &dentry_unused) {
-		dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_lru);
-		if (dentry->d_sb != sb)
-			continue;
-		dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
-		list_del_init(tmp);
-		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-		if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)) {
-			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-			continue;
-		}
-		prune_one_dentry(dentry);
-		cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock);
-		goto repeat;
-	}
-	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+	__shrink_dcache_sb(sb, NULL, 0);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -595,7 +620,7 @@
 
 	/* detach this root from the system */
 	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
-	dentry_lru_remove(dentry);
+	dentry_lru_del_init(dentry);
 	__d_drop(dentry);
 	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
 
@@ -609,7 +634,7 @@
 			spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
 			list_for_each_entry(loop, &dentry->d_subdirs,
 					    d_u.d_child) {
-				dentry_lru_remove(loop);
+				dentry_lru_del_init(loop);
 				__d_drop(loop);
 				cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock);
 			}
@@ -791,14 +816,13 @@
 		struct dentry *dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_u.d_child);
 		next = tmp->next;
 
-		dentry_lru_remove(dentry);
+		dentry_lru_del_init(dentry);
 		/* 
 		 * move only zero ref count dentries to the end 
 		 * of the unused list for prune_dcache
 		 */
 		if (!atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)) {
-			list_add_tail(&dentry->d_lru, &dentry_unused);
-			dentry_stat.nr_unused++;
+			dentry_lru_add_tail(dentry);
 			found++;
 		}
 
@@ -840,10 +864,11 @@
  
 void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry * parent)
 {
+	struct super_block *sb = parent->d_sb;
 	int found;
 
 	while ((found = select_parent(parent)) != 0)
-		prune_dcache(found, parent->d_sb);
+		__shrink_dcache_sb(sb, &found, 0);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -863,7 +888,7 @@
 	if (nr) {
 		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
 			return -1;
-		prune_dcache(nr, NULL);
+		prune_dcache(nr);
 	}
 	return (dentry_stat.nr_unused / 100) * sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure;
 }
@@ -1215,7 +1240,7 @@
  * rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() are used to disable preemption while
  * lookup is going on.
  *
- * dentry_unused list is not updated even if lookup finds the required dentry
+ * The dentry unused LRU is not updated even if lookup finds the required dentry
  * in there. It is updated in places such as prune_dcache, shrink_dcache_sb,
  * select_parent and __dget_locked. This laziness saves lookup from dcache_lock
  * acquisition.
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 453877c..e931ae9 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_instances);
 		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&s->s_anon);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inodes);
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_dentry_lru);
 		init_rwsem(&s->s_umount);
 		mutex_init(&s->s_lock);
 		lockdep_set_class(&s->s_umount, &type->s_umount_key);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ff54ae49..e5e6a24 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@
 extern struct list_head super_blocks;
 extern spinlock_t sb_lock;
 
+#define sb_entry(list)  list_entry((list), struct super_block, s_list)
 #define S_BIAS (1<<30)
 struct super_block {
 	struct list_head	s_list;		/* Keep this first */
@@ -1058,6 +1059,9 @@
 	struct list_head	s_more_io;	/* parked for more writeback */
 	struct hlist_head	s_anon;		/* anonymous dentries for (nfs) exporting */
 	struct list_head	s_files;
+	/* s_dentry_lru and s_nr_dentry_unused are protected by dcache_lock */
+	struct list_head	s_dentry_lru;	/* unused dentry lru */
+	int			s_nr_dentry_unused;	/* # of dentry on lru */
 
 	struct block_device	*s_bdev;
 	struct mtd_info		*s_mtd;