Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Jul 2002 13:33:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [RFC] dcache scalability patch (2.4.17) |
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On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Paul Menage wrote:
> - accessing foo/../bar, won't mark foo as referenced, even though it > might be being referenced frequently. Probably not a common case for foo > to be accessed exclusively in this way, but it could be fixed by marking > a dentry referenced when following ".."
It certainly will. Look - until ->d_count hits zero referenced bit is not touched or looked at. At all.
Look at the code. There is _no_ aging for dentries with positive ->d_count. They start aging only when after they enter unused_list...
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