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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 07:47:16 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:35:02AM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:

> # time sysctl -a > /dev/null
> real    1m12.806s
> user    0m0.016s
> sys     1m12.400s
> 
> Currently only memory reclaimer could remove this garbage.
> But without significant memory pressure this never happens.
> 
> This patch collects sysctl inodes into list on sysctl table header and
> prunes all their dentries once that table unregisters.

I'd probably go for hlist, but that's mostly cosmetic difference; how about
the matching stats *after* that patch?