Hi
On 3/9/06, MHD.Tayseer Alquoatli <idoit.ief@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>>> On 3/9/06, Manav Kataria <manav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:>> inode, dentry .. are Virtual file system objects, and they are heavily> created and destroyed for file system operations .. so linux choose to make> a cache for them ..> you can imagine inode/dentry caches as a pool of unused inode/dentry objects> that can be used when needed instead of allocating memory for new objects> each time, this can rise performance ...> hope this helps
I was going to suggest googling for the same or referring toUnderstanding the Linux Kernel - by Bovet and Cesati .... bu tI guessthe above explaination is as good a starting point as any :-D
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