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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 407095188f83..1ee6404b430b 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2360,19 +2360,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_hash_and_lookup); * - unhash this dentry and free it. * * Usually, we want to just turn this into - * a negative dentry, but if anybody else is - * currently using the dentry or the inode - * we can't do that and we fall back on removing - * it from the hash queues and waiting for - * it to be deleted later when it has no users + * a negative dentry, but certain workloads can + * generate a large number of negative dentries. + * Therefore, it would be better to simply + * unhash it. */ /** * d_delete - delete a dentry * @dentry: The dentry to delete * - * Turn the dentry into a negative dentry if possible, otherwise - * remove it from the hash queues so it can be deleted later + * Remove the dentry from the hash queues so it can be deleted later. */ void d_delete(struct dentry * dentry) @@ -2381,6 +2379,8 @@ void d_delete(struct dentry * dentry) spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); + __d_drop(dentry); + /* * Are we the only user? */ @@ -2388,7 +2388,6 @@ void d_delete(struct dentry * dentry) dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT; dentry_unlink_inode(dentry); } else { - __d_drop(dentry); spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); } |