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[$] Dealing with negative dentries
lundi 9 mai 2022, 22:35 , par LWN.net
The problem of negative dentries accumulating in the dentry cache in an
unbounded manner, as we looked at back in April, came up at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM). Negative dentries reflect failed file-name lookups, which are then cached, saving an expensive operation if the file name in question is looked up again. There is no mechanism to proactively prune back those cache entries, however, so the cache keeps growing until memory pressure finally causes the system to forcibly evict some of them, which can make the system unresponsive for a long time or even cause a soft lockup.
https://lwn.net/Articles/894098/
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