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SubjectRe: negative dentries wasting ram
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 01:00:14PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > The only think we save is a dentry kfree/kmalloc in this case, nbot a FS
> > downcall. And I think Andrea is right that it can waste memory for the
> > likely much more common case where the file just stays removed.
> ???
> It's lookup + unlink + lookup + create vs. lookup + unlink + create.

I would rather use kernel memory for far more useful things, such as
more room for actual dentries/inodes, or negative dentries found from
failed lookup() calls (i.e. proven useful).

The overhead of unlink()/create() probably swamps the rather minimal
gain from a saved lookup() in this not very common situation.

Just the opinion of somebody that doesn't matter... :-)
mark

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