linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] inode: Make unused inode LRU per superblock

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Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 02:17:33 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] inode: Make unused inode LRU per superblock

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:53:04PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
> 
> The inode unused list is currently a global LRU. This does not match
> the other global filesystem cache - the dentry cache - which uses
> per-superblock LRU lists. Hence we have related filesystem object
> types using different LRU reclaimatin schemes.

Is this an improvement I wonder? The dcache is using per sb lists
because it specifically requires sb traversal.

What allocation/reclaim really wants (for good scalability and NUMA
characteristics) is per-zone lists for these things. It's easy to
convert a single list into per-zone lists.

It is much harder to convert per-sb lists into per-sb x per-zone lists.

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