On Dec 07 2018, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 1:55 PM Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I am not 100% sure because of the atime invalidation issue. Apart from
>> that, it definitely was not timed out.
>
> The atime invalidation is different because that never results in
> LOOKUP requests being generated.
>
>> Are you saying that I should not be seeing lookup() requests after
>> (non-plus) readdir() if the dentry is already cached?
>
> If the dentry is already cached, and the timeout has not expired, then
> you shouldn't see LOOKUP requests for that dentry.
>
> Hmm, I see some strange entry invalidation calls in NFS export. Do
> you know if there's NFS export or open_by_handle(2) calls?
Definitely no NFS export. I can't say for sure about open_by_handle, I
do not have the source code of the client application.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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