On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:47:49AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > What I think is killing us here is the blockdev pagecache: the pagecache > which backs those directory entries and inodes. These pages get read > multiple times because they hold multiple directory entries and multiple > inodes. These multiple touches will put those pages onto the active list > so they stick around for a long time and everything else gets evicted.
I wonder what happens if you try that on ext2. There we'd get directory contents in per-directory page cache, so the picture might change... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
