diff -urN 2.2.18pre17/fs/dcache.c dcache/fs/dcache.c
--- 2.2.18pre17/fs/dcache.c	Tue Jun 13 03:48:14 2000
+++ dcache/fs/dcache.c	Tue Oct 24 15:33:32 2000
@@ -253,10 +253,15 @@
 
 		if (tmp == &dentry_unused)
 			break;
-		dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
 		list_del(tmp);
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(tmp);
 		dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_lru);
+		if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_REFERENCED) {
+			dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_REFERENCED;
+			list_add(&dentry->d_lru, &dentry_unused);
+			continue;
+		}
+		dentry_stat.nr_unused--;
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(tmp);
 		if (!dentry->d_count) {
 			i_nr -= prune_one_dentry(dentry);
 			if (!i_nr)
@@ -598,6 +603,7 @@
 			if (memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, str, len))
 				continue;
 		}
+		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED;
 		return dget(dentry);
 	}
 	return NULL;
diff -urN 2.2.18pre17/include/linux/dcache.h dcache/include/linux/dcache.h
--- 2.2.18pre17/include/linux/dcache.h	Mon Oct 23 16:28:06 2000
+++ dcache/include/linux/dcache.h	Tue Oct 24 15:33:13 2000
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@
 					 * If this dentry points to a directory, then
 					 * s_nfsd_free_path semaphore will be down
 					 */
+#define	DCACHE_REFERENCED 0x0008	/* This dentry is been recently
+					 * referenced so try to keep it in
+					 * cache.
+					 */
 
 /*
  * d_drop() unhashes the entry from the parent