From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
"Alasdair G. Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [xfs-masters] [dm-devel] new dm-bufio
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:27:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110830052755.GA30730@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110830014906.GJ3162@dastard>
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:49:06AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
>
> It's a relic from the days of Irix that we've kept around and never
> really touched because it's never shown up as a problem. Such code
> is cleaned up as we go along or as problems arise.
>
> As it is, this patchset:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/67326
>
> that I'm currently working on changes the shrinker API to be much
> more sane - the shrinker now has a separate "count objects"
> operation and the "scan objects" operation now returns the number of
> items freed rather than the number of items left in the cache.
I think if you find bugs like that they should be in patches separate
from the main conversion. Especially given that the 3.2 merge window
is getting closer a first batch of patches with these fixes and some
of the preparatory icache/dcache changes that can go into linux-next
ASAP would be nice.
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