From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:47:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210082047.04594.agruen@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DA32623.C1126CF1@digeo.com>
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 20:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> [...]
> > > This first patch creates a generic interface for registering caches
> > > with the VM subsystem so that they can react appropriately to memory
> > > pressure.
> >
> > I'd suggest Ed Tomlinson's much saner interface that adds a third
> > callbackj to kmem_cache_t (similar to the Solaris implementation)
> > instead.
> >
> > Doing this outside slab is not a good idea (and XFS currently does
> > it too - in it's own code which should be replaced with Ed's one)
>
> Yup, although that's a fairly minor point in this context..
>
> The shrinker callback code is not actually in Linus's kernel
> at present. I'm kind of sitting on it until I've had time
> to ponder the dirty great lock which Ed added ;)
Switching to Ed's code once it's in the kernel may be worthwhile; until then
the dumb shrinking approaah doesn't to do much harm IMHO.
--Andreas.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-08 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-08 18:08 [RFC] [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3 tytso
2002-10-08 18:19 ` [Ext2-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-08 18:38 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 18:47 ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
2002-10-08 19:10 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-10 6:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 18:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-08 18:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-08 22:37 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-08 18:21 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-08 18:59 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Gruenbacher
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