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Hugh Dickins authored
A tmpfs user reported increasingly slow directory reads when repeatedly creating and unlinking in a mkstemp-like way. The negative dentries accumulate alarmingly (until memory pressure finally frees them), and are just a hindrance to any in-memory filesystem. simple_lookup set d_op to arrange for negative dentries to be deleted immediately. (But I failed to discover how it is that on-disk filesystems seem to keep their negative dentries within manageable bounds: this effect was gross with tmpfs or ramfs, but no problem at all with extN or reiser.) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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