From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, khlebnikov@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] fs: Use a common define for inode slab caches
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:13:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110823091307.GA21492@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314089786-20535-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:56:14PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> All inode slab cache initialisation calls need to use specific flags
> so that certain core functionality works correctly (e.g. reclaimable
> memory accounting). Some of these flags are used inconsistently
> across different filesystems, so inode cache slab behaviour can vary
> according to filesystem type.
>
> Wrap all the SLAB_* flags relevant to inode caches up into a single
> SLAB_INODES flag and convert all the inode caches to use the new
> flag.
Why do we keep the SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN flag for some filesystems?
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, khlebnikov@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] fs: Use a common define for inode slab caches
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:13:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110823091307.GA21492@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314089786-20535-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:56:14PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> All inode slab cache initialisation calls need to use specific flags
> so that certain core functionality works correctly (e.g. reclaimable
> memory accounting). Some of these flags are used inconsistently
> across different filesystems, so inode cache slab behaviour can vary
> according to filesystem type.
>
> Wrap all the SLAB_* flags relevant to inode caches up into a single
> SLAB_INODES flag and convert all the inode caches to use the new
> flag.
Why do we keep the SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN flag for some filesystems?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-23 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-23 8:56 [PATCH 00/12] RFC: shrinker APi rework and generic LRU lists Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 01/13] fs: Use a common define for inode slab caches Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-08-23 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:20 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:20 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-24 6:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-24 6:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 02/13] dcache: convert dentry_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-24 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-08-24 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 03/13] dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-24 6:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-24 6:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 04/13] mm: new shrinker API Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:23 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:23 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-24 6:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-24 6:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 05/13] mm: convert shrinkers to use new API Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:35 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-08-23 9:35 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-08-26 17:09 ` Wanlong Gao
2011-08-26 17:09 ` Wanlong Gao
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 06/13] shrinker: remove old API now it is unused Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 07/13] Use atomic-long operations instead of looping around cmpxchg() Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 08/13] list: add a new LRU list type Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:32 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:32 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:58 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-23 9:58 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2011-08-24 14:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-08-24 14:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 09/13] inode: convert inode lru list to generic lru list code Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-24 6:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-24 6:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 10/13] xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-24 6:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-24 6:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 11/13] dcache: use a dispose list in select_parent Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-05 9:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-05 9:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 12/13] dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 9:57 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 9:57 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` [PATCH 13/13] dcache: convert to use new lru list infrastructure Dave Chinner
2011-08-23 8:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-24 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-24 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
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