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

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Date:	Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:32:54 +1100
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>, devel@...nvz.org,
	Vasily Averin <vvs@...ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: per-sb dentry lru list 

On Tuesday October 31, dhowells@...hat.com wrote:
> Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > When we unmount a filesystem we need to release all dentries.
> > We currently
> >   - move a collection of dentries to the end of the dentry_unused list
> >   - call prune_dcache to prune that number of dentries.
> 
> This is not true anymore.

True.  That should read:


 When we remount a filesystem or invalidate a block device which has a
 mounted filesystem we call shrink dcache_sb which currently:
     - moves a collection of dentries to the end of the dentry_unused list
     - calls prune_dcache to prune that number of dentries.

but the patch is still valid.

Any objections to it going in to -mm  and maybe .20 ??

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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