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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] A few patches for dcache
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:59:18 +0400
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:25:03PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
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> 
> The VFS shrinker code is now already called on a per-sb basis. Each
> sb has it's own shrinker context that deals with dentries, inodes
> and anything a filesystem wants to have shrunk in the call. That
> solves the original issue I had with your "limit the dentry cache
> size" patch series in that it didn't shrink or limit the other VFS
> caches that were the ones that were really consuming all your
> memory...

Thanks for comments, Dave! Still the read only lock without
increasing sequence number might be useful, no? (patch 1)

...
> 
> Dave.

	Cyrill