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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: keeping nfsd dentries on unused_list
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:15:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15796.35498.749863.376566@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Christoph Hellwig on Monday October 21

On Monday October 21, hch@sgi.com wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> since your export changes in 2.5.<early> always have a non-empty
> ->d_hash (linked into sb->s_anon) and thus are put on the unused
> list by dput instead of directly reclaiming it.
> 
> Is this behaviour intentional and will stay during 2.6?  Keeping
> those dentries alive will allow me to remove lots of code in XFS
> to keep inodes that are written to by nfsd in cache as the final
> iput will flush all delayed allocated space and thus decrease
> nfs write performance massively - but as long as the dentry is
> on the unused list after dput we still have an inode reference
> and thus the delalloc block don't need to be converted.

Yes.  That behaviour is intentional and will stay.

NeilBrown

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-21 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-21 21:37 keeping nfsd dentries on unused_list Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-21 23:15 ` Neil Brown [this message]

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