On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 11:01:36PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > That's not true. Evict is called when we want to remove an inode > from memory. i_count needs to be zero for that, but i_nlink doesn't > as we don't cache inodes forever. When we drop i_count and it reaches > zero iput_final() is called, which decides depending on ->drop_inode > to either evict the inode or keep it on the LRU. Sorry, of course Cristoph is absolutely correct. - Ted -- 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
