From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: adilger@turbolinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: repeated failed open()'s results in lots of used memory [Was: [Fwd: memory consumption]]
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:57:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108012357.f71Nvcd16065@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108012253.f71MrxGO007546@webber.adilger.int>
In-Reply-To: <3B688480.7090704@starentnetworks.com>
In article <200108012253.f71MrxGO007546@webber.adilger.int> you write:
>
>Looking at the code, it appears that if we call shrink_dcache_memory()
>from while trying to allocate memoty for a filesystem, it returns
>without doing anything, to avoid a deadlock. Al Viro and/or Marcelo
>Tosatti probably know how to fix this.
Note that negative dentries are different, and can be happily thrown
away even from a filesystem context - so the suggested fix with special
handling for negative dentries (another email) should work fine.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-01 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-01 20:58 Brian Ristuccia
2001-08-01 22:04 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-01 22:36 ` Brian Ristuccia
2001-08-01 22:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-01 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-08-01 22:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-01 23:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-01 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-02 1:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-02 4:42 ` Rik van Riel
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