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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:00:54 +1000 From: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> To: raghu.prabhu13@...il.com Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mgorman@...e.de, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, keithp@...thp.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, riel@...hat.com, swhiteho@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jack@...e.cz, Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@...hang.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove incorrect usage of sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:56:23AM +0530, raghu.prabhu13@...il.com wrote: > From: Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@...hang.net> > > In shrinker functions, sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure variable is being used while > trimming slab caches in general and not restricted to inode/dentry caches as > documented for that sysctl. > > Raghavendra D Prabhu (1): > mm/vmscan: Remove sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure from non-vfs shrinkers > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 2 +- That's the only questionable use of it as it has nothing to do with filesystems. > fs/gfs2/glock.c | 2 +- > fs/gfs2/quota.c | 2 +- > fs/mbcache.c | 2 +- > fs/nfs/dir.c | 2 +- > fs/quota/dquot.c | 3 +-- > net/sunrpc/auth.c | 2 +- All the others are filesystemâ‚‹specific caches and as such the use of vfs_cache_pressure to adjust the balance of reclaim is valid usage. Especially the VFS quota cache shrinkers. ;) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@...morbit.com -- 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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