"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It makes a big difference to the cache miss case, since not only is the > entire path looked up again, but the LOOKUP_REVAL flag gets set, which > forces a full lookup of each component (as opposed to just > revalidating). This is not about a cache miss. It's about a cache hit (positive cached dentry) but changed inode on the server. Is this a likely scenario? Thanks, Miklos -- 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