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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Support follow_link in RCU-walk.
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:00:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150305160032.GB29656@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21752.24468.376138.308459@quad.stoffel.home>

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 08:52:20AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote:

> So what happens if your filesystem is 10Tb in size, and you have 50
> million files and lots of them are symlinks?  I've got developers who
> do shit like this and wonder why performance sucks....  and I just
> worry that GPF_KERNEL is a limited resource.  But maybe 64bit systems
> won't really have any problems?

What would keep all those symlinks' contents pinned in page cache?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-05 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-05  5:21 [PATCH 0/9] Support follow_link in RCU-walk NeilBrown
2015-03-05  5:21 ` [PATCH 6/9] VFS/namei: enable RCU-walk when following symlinks NeilBrown
2015-03-05  5:21 ` [PATCH 2/9] VFS/namei: use terminate_walk when symlink lookup fails NeilBrown
2015-03-05  5:21 ` [PATCH 9/9] NFS: support LOOKUP_RCU in nfs_follow_link NeilBrown
2015-03-05  5:21 ` [PATCH 5/9] VFS/namei: enhance follow_link to support RCU-walk NeilBrown
2015-03-05  5:21 ` [PATCH 3/9] VFS/namei: new flag to support RCU symlinks: LOOKUP_LINK_RCU NeilBrown
2015-03-05  5:21 ` [PATCH 8/9] XFS: allow follow_link to often succeed in RCU-walk NeilBrown
2015-03-05  5:21 ` [PATCH 7/9] VFS/namei: handle LOOKUP_RCU in page_follow_link_light NeilBrown
2015-03-05  5:21 ` [PATCH 4/9] VFS/namei: abort RCU-walk on symlink if atime needs updating NeilBrown
2015-03-05  5:21 ` [PATCH 1/9] FS: make all ->follow_link handlers aware for LOOKUP_RCU NeilBrown
2015-03-05  6:05 ` [PATCH 0/9] Support follow_link in RCU-walk Al Viro
2015-03-05 13:52   ` John Stoffel
2015-03-05 16:00     ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-03-05 17:17       ` John Stoffel
2015-03-05 21:08   ` NeilBrown
2015-03-09  2:21   ` NeilBrown

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