Re: [PATCH 00/11] fs/dcache: Limit # of negative dentries

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:32:02AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 2/27/20 10:34 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > The canonical argument in favour of negative dentries is to improve
> > application startup time as every application searches the library path
                                                               ^^^^^^^
> > for the same libraries.  Only they don't do that any more:
                 ^^^^^^^^^
>
> It is the shell that does the path search, not the command itself.