[RFC][PATCH] Do not set /proc inode->pid for non-pid-related inodes

Dave Hansen hansendc at us.ibm.com
Mon Mar 26 10:20:10 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 11:12 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > In (at least one version of) Dave's patches, the /proc your pidns is
> > automatically used when you use /proc.  In that case a /proc should
> > just go away when the last task goes away, since noone else can use
> > that /proc.
> 
> Unless I am rather confused that does extremely nasty things to
> the VFS dentry cache.  Because a dentry can point at one process
> one minute and another process the next.  It is doable but only
> at the cost of decreased performance.

By using, I think Serge meant "mounting".  We're going to statically
assign a /proc mount to a namespace when the mount is created, not fudge
it around at runtime.

How does this thrash the dcache?

-- Dave




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