On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 13:25, Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote: > > I actually find the dentry's sticking around when their ref counts go to > zero a feature. Tracing applications will open and close the eventfs files > many times. If the dentry were to be deleted on every close, it would need > to be create over again in short spurts.
Sure. I think this is literally a tuning thing, and we'll see if anybody ever says "the dentry cache grows too much with tracefs". Linus