Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 May 2004 18:13:01 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: RCU scaling on large systems |
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On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:42:28PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > note that I changed my tree to free all negative entries that are > > currently generated by unlink. I find useless to leave negative dentries > > after "unlink". I leave them of course after a failed lookup (that's the > > fundamental usage of the negative dentries for the PATHs userspace > > lookups), but not after unlink. > > Sounds sensible. Could you please send out the patch?
Seems like it'll be the wrong thing for the fairly common lockfile case and also stuff like make clean all.
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