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Message-ID: <20200228193248.GE101220@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:32:48 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] fs/dcache: Limit # of negative dentries
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:34:12PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> The canonical argument in favour of negative dentries is to improve
> application startup time as every application searches the library path
> for the same libraries.
The other canonical example is C compilers that need to search for
header files along the include search path:
% strace -o /tmp/st -f gcc -o /tmp/hello /tmp/hello.c -I.. -I../..
% grep open /tmp/st | grep stdio.h | grep ENOENT | wc -l
6
- Ted
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