Re: [RFC PATCH v2] fuse: add optional workqueue to periodically invalidate expired dentries

[Bernd Schubert]

Hi Luis

On 4/15/25 15:38, Luis Henriques wrote:
> This patch adds a new mount option that will allow to set a workqueue to
> periodically invalidate expired dentries.  When this parameter is set,
> every new (or revalidated) dentry will be added to a tree, sorted by
> expiry time.  The workqueue period is set when a filesystem is mounted
> using this new parameter, and can not be less than 5 seconds.


I will look into it tomorrow. I wonder a bit if we can extend it to 
provide an LRU and to limit max cached dentries without a timeout. Need 
to think about details.


Thanks,
Bernd