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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:46:13 +1000 From: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] ext4: extents status tree shrinker improvement On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:35:21PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:10:02AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:35:26AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > So I've been thinking about this some more, and it seems to me is > > > actually, what we need is *both* an LRU and a RR scheme. > > > > We already have shrinker implementations that do this. It would > > probably take 10-15 lines of code to add it to any existing LRU > > list based shrinker..... > > Hi Dave, > > I guess that you are talking about lru list in include/linux/list_lru.h. > Thanks for pointing it out, and I will take a look at it. No, I'm not - that's just the linked list implementation. I'm talking about the use of referenced bits on the objects themselves, and how the shrinker treats them. i.e. the I_REFERENCED state bit in the inode, and DCACHE_REFERENCED on the dentry. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@...morbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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