Re: Dcache hash distrubition patches

Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:29:34 +1100

> I doubt inode cache is very critical, except perhaps in NFS server loads
> (but even the nfs server has an own frontend cache)
> Normally the dcache should bear most of the load.

I did some analysis of the hashes ages ago. From memory the regular
grouping of inodes caused this unbalanced distribution:

http://samba.org/~anton/linux/hashes/1/icache.png

Anton
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