From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fs/superblock: Unregister sb shrinker before ->kill_sb() Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:52:46 -0400 Message-ID: <537E1D4E.4040407@redhat.com> References: <1400749779-24879-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1400749779-24879-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Weiner , Hugh Dickins , Tim Chen , Dave Chinner , Yuanhan Liu , Bob Liu , Jan Kara , Linux Kernel , Linux-MM , Linux-FSDevel To: Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1400749779-24879-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 05/22/2014 05:09 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > From: Dave Chinner > > We will like to unregister the sb shrinker before ->kill_sb(). > This will allow cached objects to be counted without call to > grab_super_passive() to update ref count on sb. We want > to avoid locking during memory reclamation especially when > we are skipping the memory reclaim when we are out of > cached objects. > Signed-off-by: Tim Chen > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed