linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: per-sb dentry lru list

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:34:56 +0300
From:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
CC:	Vasily Averin <vvs@...ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>,
	Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>, Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: per-sb dentry lru list

> Quick search maybe, but your patch adds 2 pointers to each dentry in the 
> system... That's pretty expensive, as dentries are already using a *lot* of 
> ram.
I don't see much problems with it... it is cache and it can be pruned if needed.
Some time ago, for example, my patch introducing the same list for inodes
was commited.

> Maybe an alternative would be to not have anymore a global dentry_unused, but 
> only per-sb unused dentries lists ?
I don't know global LRU implementation based on per-sb lists, do you?
If someone suggest the algorithm for more or less fair global LRU
based on non-global list we will implement it. However, so far,
AFAICS there were problems with it.

Thanks,
Kirill
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/