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The heuristic for readdirplus is designed to try to detect 'ls -l' and similar patterns. It does so by looking for cache hit/miss patterns in both the attribute cache and in the dcache of the files in a given directory, and then sets a flag for the readdirplus code to interpret. The problem with this approach is that a single attribute or dcache miss can cause the NFS code to force a refresh of the attributes for the entire set of files contained in the directory. To be able to make a more nuanced decision, let's sample the number of hits and misses in the set of open directory descriptors. That allows us to set thresholds at which we start preferring READDIRPLUS over regular READDIR, or at which we start to force a re-read of the remaining readdir cache using READDIRPLUS. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.