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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: It's time to hack on dentry_stat?
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 08:51:16 -0600
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On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:26:58PM +0800, rae l wrote:
> I have noticed that struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat is a struct with
> six fields,
> but only 2 of them are used, other 4 have never been used since v2.6.11,
> 
> from include/linux/dcache.h:
> 
> struct dentry_stat_t {
>         int nr_dentry;
>         int nr_unused;
>         int age_limit;          /* age in seconds */
>         int want_pages;         /* pages requested by system */
>         int dummy[2];
> };

You have to not break:

$ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state 
122104  115846  45      0       0       0

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