From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kornievskaia, Olga" <Olga.Kornievskaia@netapp.com>,
Leonid Fedorenchik <leonid.fedorenchik@paragon-software.com>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: help with understanding evict inode functionality
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 18:37:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151004223701.GC4442@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151004060136.GA19017@infradead.org>
On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 11:01:36PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> That's not true. Evict is called when we want to remove an inode
> from memory. i_count needs to be zero for that, but i_nlink doesn't
> as we don't cache inodes forever. When we drop i_count and it reaches
> zero iput_final() is called, which decides depending on ->drop_inode
> to either evict the inode or keep it on the LRU.
Sorry, of course Cristoph is absolutely correct.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-04 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-02 13:57 help with understanding evict inode functionality Leonid Fedorenchik
2015-10-02 14:38 ` Kornievskaia, Olga
2015-10-04 2:28 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-10-04 6:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-04 22:37 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2015-10-15 9:53 ` Jan Kara
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2015-10-01 22:54 Kornievskaia, Olga
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