dentry: Fallback to vmalloc Dentries are a type of entities that are important for file system performance. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- fs/dcache.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/dcache.c 2007-09-24 16:47:43.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c 2007-09-24 17:03:15.000000000 -0700 @@ -2118,7 +2118,8 @@ static void __init dcache_init(unsigned * of the dcache. */ dentry_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dentry, - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD); + SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD| + SLAB_VFALLBACK); register_shrinker(&dcache_shrinker);