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

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]> 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