Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:23:29 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfs: add d_prune dentry operation |
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:11:41PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > The code in the patch doesn't explain to me why you'd need to call > dentry_lru_prune() rather than dentry_lru_del()? It's something to > do with the difference between active and inactive LRU removal, but
Whenever we actually remove a object it needs to be removed, if it only gets deleted from the LRU because it now has a reference and doesn't belong onto the LRU it doesn't.
But yes, this really should be documented better in the code.
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