Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:39:57 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/5] Backing Store for sysfs (Overhauled) |
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:57:40PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:00:15AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:53:44PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: > > > > > > The concept is still the same that in this prototype also we create dentry and > > > inode on the fly when they are first looked up. This is done for both leaf or > > > non-leaf dentries. The generic nature of sysfs_dirent makes it easy to do for > > > both leaf or non-leaf dentries. > > > > What happens once a dentry and inode is created? Is there any way for > > them to be forced out, or do they stay around in memory forever? > > The idea atleast, is that if no one is using a dentry, it will > be put in the dentry lru list and eventually returned to the slab. > inodes too are returned alongwith. Just like how on-disk filesystems work.
Do you all have any numbers backing this up?
thanks,
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