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    autofs: revert "autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk" · 43694d4b
    Ian Kent authored
    While commit 092a5345 ("autofs: take more care to not update
    last_used on path walk") helped (partially) resolve a problem where
    automounts were not expiring due to aggressive accesses from user space
    it has a side effect for very large environments.
    
    This change helps with the expire problem by making the expire more
    aggressive but, for very large environments, that means more mount
    requests from clients.  When there are a lot of clients that can mean
    fairly significant server load increases.
    
    It turns out I put the last_used in this position to solve this very
    problem and failed to update my own thinking of the autofs expire
    policy.  So the patch being reverted introduces a regression which
    should be fixed.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151174729420.6162.1832622523537052460.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
    Fixes: 092a5345
    
     ("autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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