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Message-ID: <8e40fee3-4a6a-244d-aa9b-97123b56e6fb@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 08:46:07 +0800
From: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
"Wangkai (Kevin,C)" <wangkai86@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] fs/dcache: Track & limit # of negative dentries
On 07/03/2018 03:34 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 10:52 PM Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com> wrote:
>> A rogue application can potentially create a large number of negative
>> dentries in the system consuming most of the memory available if it
>> is not under the direct control of a memory controller that enforce
>> kernel memory limit.
> I certainly don't mind the patch series, but I would like it to be
> accompanied with some actual example numbers, just to make it all a
> bit more concrete.
>
> Maybe even performance numbers showing "look, I've filled the dentry
> lists with nasty negative dentries, now it's all slower because we
> walk those less interesting entries".
>
> Linus
I did have performance numbers in the previous version of the patchset.
I will rerun the performance test and post the numbers later on.
Cheers,
Longman
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