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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:21:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com Subject: Re: [patch 15/26] Slab defrag: Support generic defragmentation for inode slab caches On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Provide generic functionality that can be used by filesystems that have > > their own inode caches to also tie into the defragmentation functions > > that are made available here. > > Yes, this is tricky stuff. I have vague ancestral memories that the sort > of inode work which you refer to here can cause various deadlocks, lockdep > warnings and such nasties when if we attempt to call it from the wrong > context (ie: from within fs code). Right that is likelyi the reason why Michael did his stress test... > Possibly we could prevent that by skipping all this code if the caller > didn't have __GFP_FS. We do. Look at the earlier patch. > I trust all the code in kick_inodes() was carefuly copied from > prue_icache() and such places - I didn't check it. Yup tried to remain faithful to that. We could increase the usefulness if I could take more liberties with the code in order to actually move an item instead of simply reclaiming. But its better to first have a proven correct solution before doing more work on that. - 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/
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