Re: repeated failed open()'s results in lots of used memory [Was: [Fwd: memory consumption]]

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In article <200108012253.f71MrxGO007546@webber.adilger.int> you write:
>
>Looking at the code, it appears that if we call shrink_dcache_memory()
>from while trying to allocate memoty for a filesystem, it returns
>without doing anything, to avoid a deadlock. Al Viro and/or Marcelo
>Tosatti probably know how to fix this.

Note that negative dentries are different, and can be happily thrown
away even from a filesystem context - so the suggested fix with special
handling for negative dentries (another email) should work fine.

                Linus
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