Ashish Sangwan has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.gerrithub.io/c/ffilz/nfs-ganesha/+/456516 Change subject: Free the extra ref taken by the dirent on the mdcache entry even if the content lock is held in read mode. ...................................................................... Free the extra ref taken by the dirent on the mdcache entry even if the content lock is held in read mode. Not freeing the extra ref leads to memory growth as we are not able to prune the mdcache entries with ref count >= 2. Though we expect that the ref will be released on a invalidate call, but invalidation of the dirents only happen when we either add/delete any directory entry. Otherwise the dirent stays in the cache pinning the correspodning mdcache entry. Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <ashishsangwan2(a)gmail.com&gt; Change-Id: I48c6e6f02705a067e3ce0fcaa2177e069ddd53f1 --- M src/FSAL/Stackable_FSALs/FSAL_MDCACHE/mdcache_helpers.c M src/include/abstract_atomic.h 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) git pull ssh://review.gerrithub.io:29418/ffilz/nfs-ganesha refs/changes/16/456516/1 -- To view, visit https://review.gerrithub.io/c/ffilz/nfs-ganesha/+/456516 To unsubscribe, or for help writing mail filters, visit https://review.gerrithub.io/settings Gerrit-Project: ffilz/nfs-ganesha Gerrit-Branch: next Gerrit-Change-Id: I48c6e6f02705a067e3ce0fcaa2177e069ddd53f1 Gerrit-Change-Number: 456516 Gerrit-PatchSet: 1 Gerrit-Owner: Ashish Sangwan <ashishsangwan2(a)gmail.com&gt; Gerrit-MessageType: newchange