Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 May 2004 23:17:12 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: dentry bloat. |
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On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 09:03:16PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> Actually, what may happen is that since the dentries are added > in the front, a double move like that would result in hash chain > traversal looping. Timing dependent and unlikely, but d_move_count > avoided that theoritical possibility. It is not about skipping > dentries which is safe because a miss would result in a real_lookup()
Not really. A miss could result in getting another dentry allocated for the same e.g. directory, which is *NOT* harmless at all. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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