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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 0/6] fs/dcache: Track & limit # of negative dentries
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 11:00:32AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 10:35 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Could we allocate -ve entries from separate slab?
>
> No, because negative dentrires don't stay negative.
>
> Every single positive dentry starts out as a negative dentry that is
> passed in to "lookup()" to maybe be made positive.
>
> And most of the time they <i>do</i> turn positive, because most of the
> time people actually open files that exist.
>
> But then occasionally you don't, because you're just blindly opening a
> filename whether it exists or not (to _check_ whether it's there).

BTW, one point that might not be realized by everyone: negative dentries
are *not* the hard case.
mount -t tmpfs none /mnt
touch /mnt/a
for i in `seq 100000`; do ln /mnt/a /mnt/$i; done

and you've got 100000 *unevictable* dentries, with the time per iteration
being not all that high (especially if you just call link(2) in a loop).
They are all positive and all pinned. And you've got only one inode
there and no persistently opened files, so rlimit and quota won't help
any.
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