On 05/20/2011 05:31 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Putting them at the end of the cache LRU instead of the head would allow them to be dropped quickly under memory pressure. > > This still would fill up your memory for find /, potentially pushing > out other stuff. > > -Andi So these things are just hashed on dput, so they don't have any references to them and they are automatically put on the LRU list, so if we get under memory pressure they will be easily discarded, especially if nobody is actually stating them. Thanks, Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
