On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 01:50:55PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: > It was found that the Oracle database software issues a lot of call > to the seq_path() kernel function which translates a (dentry, mnt) > pair to an absolute path. The seq_path() function will eventually > take the following two locks: Nobody should be doing reverse dentry-to-name lookups in a quantity sufficient for it to become a performance limiting factor. What is the Oracle DB actually using this path for? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
