From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760454AbYEMNgV (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 09:36:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754741AbYEMNgF (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 09:36:05 -0400 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:38402 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754729AbYEMNgE (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 09:36:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:28:12 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , andi@firstfloor.org, Rik van Riel , Pekka Enberg , mpm@selenic.com Subject: Re: [patch 18/21] Filesystem: Socket inode defragmentation Message-ID: <20080513132810.GA7152@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20080510030831.796641881@sgi.com> <20080510030918.882272887@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080510030918.882272887@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Christoph. On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:08:49PM -0700, Christoph Lameter (clameter@sgi.com) wrote: > Support inode defragmentation for sockets Out of curiosity, how can you drop socket inode, since it is always attached to socket which is removed automatically when connection is closed. Any force of dropping socket inode can only result in connection drop, i.e. there are no inodes, which are placed in cache and are not yet freed, if there are no attached sockets. So question is how does it work for sockets? -- Evgeniy Polyakov