From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p7U5Rxkk114093 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:27:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:27:55 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [xfs-masters] [dm-devel] new dm-bufio Message-ID: <20110830052755.GA30730@infradead.org> References: <20110823113048.GC5442@ubuntu> <20110823185423.GA10936@infradead.org> <20110830014906.GJ3162@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110830014906.GJ3162@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: Joe Thornber , Mike Snitzer , xfs@oss.sgi.com, Christoph Hellwig , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, device-mapper development , Mikulas Patocka , "Alasdair G. Kergon" 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. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs