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Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:52:23 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Cong Meng <mc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: Go through the LRU list of inode from head

On Thu 21-06-12 17:00:27, Cong Meng wrote:
> Go through the LRU list of inode from head.
> 
> (I'm not sure whether there is any trick here I doesn't get.  If yes, 
> any one could explain it)
  Look at inode_lru_list_add(). It adds at the head of the list. So you
should take from the tail to get the least recently used element...

								Honza

> 
> Signed-off-by: Cong Meng <mc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/inode.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> index 775cbab..aac8449 100644
> --- a/fs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/inode.c
> @@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ void prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nr_to_scan)
>  		if (list_empty(&sb->s_inode_lru))
>  			break;
>  
> -		inode = list_entry(sb->s_inode_lru.prev, struct inode, i_lru);
> +		inode = list_entry(sb->s_inode_lru.next, struct inode, i_lru);
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * we are inverting the sb->s_inode_lru_lock/inode->i_lock here,
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 
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