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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: dgc@sgi.com, jblunck@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	balbir@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] [PATCH,RFC] vfs: per-superblock unused dentries list (2nd version)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:04:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060618190422.5daf17fe.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17557.64512.496195.714144@cse.unsw.edu.au>

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:21:04 +1000
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:

> static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb)
> +static void prune_dcache(int count, struct list_head *list)
>  {
> +	int have_list = list != NULL;
> +	struct list_head alt_head;
>  	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
> +	if (list == NULL) {
> +		/* use the dentry_unused list */
> +		list_add(&alt_head, &dentry_unused);
> +		list_del_init(&dentry_unused);
> +		list = &alt_head;
> +	}

This will make dentry_unused appear to be empty.

>  	for (; count ; count--) {
>  		struct dentry *dentry;
>  		struct list_head *tmp;
> @@ -405,23 +417,11 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count, stru
>  
>  		cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock);

And then it makes that apparent-emptiness globally visible.

Won't this cause concurrent unmounting or memory shrinking to malfunction?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-19  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-01  9:51 [patch 0/5] [PATCH,RFC] vfs: per-superblock unused dentries list (2nd version) jblunck
2006-06-01  9:51 ` [patch 1/5] vfs: remove whitespace noise from fs/dcache.c jblunck
2006-06-01  9:51 ` [patch 2/5] vfs: d_genocide() doesnt add dentries to unused list jblunck
2006-06-01  9:51 ` [patch 3/5] vfs: remove shrink_dcache_anon() jblunck
2006-06-01  9:51 ` [patch 4/5] vfs: per superblock dentry stats jblunck
2006-06-01  9:51 ` [patch 5/5] vfs: per superblock dentry unused list jblunck
2006-06-02  1:06 ` [patch 0/5] [PATCH,RFC] vfs: per-superblock unused dentries list (2nd version) Andrew Morton
2006-06-02  2:23   ` David Chinner
2006-06-02  2:49     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-02  4:17       ` David Chinner
2006-06-02 15:33       ` Jan Blunck
2006-06-05  1:30 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-16 15:51   ` Jan Blunck
2006-06-16 22:25     ` Neil Brown
2006-06-18 23:56       ` David Chinner
2006-06-19  0:27         ` Neil Brown
2006-06-19  1:00           ` David Chinner
2006-06-19  1:21             ` Neil Brown
2006-06-19  2:04               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-06-19  2:25                 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-19  5:55               ` David Chinner
2006-06-19  6:33                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-19  8:30                   ` David Chinner
2006-06-19 10:48                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-06-19 11:01                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-19 17:34                       ` Ravinandan Arakali
2006-06-20  0:37                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 21:34                           ` Ravinandan Arakali
2006-06-20 22:10                             ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 23:56                               ` Ravinandan Arakali
2006-06-21  0:18                                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-21  0:31                                   ` Ravinandan Arakali
2006-06-19  9:34       ` Jan Blunck

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