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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:53:51 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@valerie.inf.elte.hu>
To:        "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc:        poipoi@famipow.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-fsdevel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject:   Re: name cache wiping in readdir ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.980824155142.9210B-100000@valerie.inf.elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <199808240934.KAA21958@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>

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On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> One thing which I would like to try (we did it in earlier versions of
> the primitive name cache in 2.0) is a two-level name cache, where we
> promote names up to the next level on a hit and demote them when we want
> to emply a list. [...]

we have dentry aging which should take care of these issues. Whenever we
reply to memory pressure, we are more likely to free unused dentries.

-- mingo


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