Re: [PATCH 06/11] xfs: deferred inode inactivation

Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-16T15:48:31Z

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:27:10AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Still digesting this. What trips me off a bit is the huge amount of
> duplication vs the inode reclaim mechanism. Did you look into sharing
> more code there and if yes what speaks against that?

TBH I didn't look /too/ hard because once upon a time[1] Dave was aiming
to replace the inode reclaim tagging and iteration with an lru list walk
so I decided not to entangle the two.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20191009032124.10541-23-david@fromorbit.com/

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