linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v4 3/3] fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries

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Message-ID: <cef8c6ab-6aaf-cca2-1e94-e90c2278afaa@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Feb 2019 17:28:00 -0500
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        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>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v4 3/3] fs/dcache: Track & report number of
 negative dentries

On 02/04/2019 05:23 PM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> Small nit below.
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 01:52:38PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
>>  
>> +nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also
>> +negative dentries which do not mapped to actual files.
>                      which are not mapped to actual files
>
> Is that what you meant?
>
>   Luis

Sorry for the grammatical error. Maybe I should send a patch to fix that.

Thanks,
Longman