linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] ext4: extents status tree shrinker improvement

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Message-ID: <20140424014613.GU18672@dastard>
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
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