Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:00:33 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] Support follow_link in RCU-walk. |
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 08:52:20AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
> So what happens if your filesystem is 10Tb in size, and you have 50 > million files and lots of them are symlinks? I've got developers who > do shit like this and wonder why performance sucks.... and I just > worry that GPF_KERNEL is a limited resource. But maybe 64bit systems > won't really have any problems?
What would keep all those symlinks' contents pinned in page cache?
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