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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-02-08 15:00:17 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-02-08 15:00:17 -0800 |
| commit | a655fe9f194842693258f43b5382855db1c2f654 (patch) | |
| tree | a6e523c42378f43881c421530941dcbb529461ab /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | 7499a288bf1a4a49be9d72beb0a5c7b9aa6ffec9 (diff) | |
| parent | 27b4ad621e887ce8e5eb508a0103f13d30f6b38a (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
An ipvlan bug fix in 'net' conflicted with the abstraction away
of the IPV6 specific support in 'net-next'.
Similarly, a bug fix for mlx5 in 'net' conflicted with the flow
action conversion in 'net-next'.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 26 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 819caf8ca05f..58649bd4fcfc 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -56,26 +56,32 @@ of any kernel data structures. dentry-state: -From linux/fs/dentry.c: +From linux/include/linux/dcache.h: -------------------------------------------------------------- -struct { +struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat { int nr_dentry; int nr_unused; int age_limit; /* age in seconds */ int want_pages; /* pages requested by system */ - int dummy[2]; -} dentry_stat = {0, 0, 45, 0,}; --------------------------------------------------------------- - -Dentries are dynamically allocated and deallocated, and -nr_dentry seems to be 0 all the time. Hence it's safe to -assume that only nr_unused, age_limit and want_pages are -used. Nr_unused seems to be exactly what its name says. + int nr_negative; /* # of unused negative dentries */ + int dummy; /* Reserved for future use */ +}; +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +Dentries are dynamically allocated and deallocated. + +nr_dentry shows the total number of dentries allocated (active ++ unused). nr_unused shows the number of dentries that are not +actively used, but are saved in the LRU list for future reuse. + Age_limit is the age in seconds after which dcache entries can be reclaimed when memory is short and want_pages is nonzero when shrink_dcache_pages() has been called and the dcache isn't pruned yet. +nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also +negative dentries which do not mapped to actual files. + ============================================================== dquot-max & dquot-nr: |