linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/76] Optimize list lru memory consumption

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Date:   Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:30:12 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Alex Shi <alexs@...nel.org>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        trond.myklebust@...merspace.com, anna.schumaker@...app.com,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>,
        Xiongchun duan <duanxiongchun@...edance.com>,
        fam.zheng@...edance.com, Muchun Song <smuchun@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/76] Optimize list lru memory consumption

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 4:23 AM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 03:28:22PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > So we have to convert to new API for all filesystems, which is done in
> > one patch. Some filesystems are easy to convert (just replace
> > kmem_cache_alloc() to alloc_inode_sb()), while other filesystems need to
> > do more work.
>
> From what I can tell, three are 54 file systems for which it was a
> trivial one-line change, and two (f2fs and nfs42) that were a tad bit
> more complex.

Definitely right. Thanks for your clarification.

>
> > In order to make it easy for maintainers of different
> > filesystems to review their own maintained part, I split the patch into
> > patches which are per-filesystem in this version. I am not sure if this
> > is a good idea, because there is going to be more commits.
>
> What I'd actually suggest is that you combine all of the trivial file
> system changes into a single commit, and keep the two more complex
> changes for f2fs and nfs42 in separate commits.

Got it. Will do in the next version.

>
> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>

Thanks.

>
> ... for the ext4 related change.
>
>                                                 - Ted
>